Word: crass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a descent from the peaks of gloire to the crass arena of politics hardly seemed possible for the 75-year-old master of the Elysee, long accustomed to thinking of himself in the third-person historic present. But neither French politics nor the once Olympian image of De Gaulle himself would ever be the same again. For last week, needing more than 50% of the votes in a field of six to win a first-ballot reelection as President of France, Charles de Gaulle lost. Though he ran first in the field, he got only 44% of the votes...
...warm old familiar garment, primps her grey hair, and marches defiantly into the cold. She tramps down from Beacon Hill, shops in one of the gaudy New Boston stores and many of the old smaller ones, then just as quietly slips back through the park, leaving cries of crass commercialism to others. So familiar is her path, so unobtrusive, that you may not have noticed her. Your Christmas in Boston may consist entirely of fighting crowds at Jordan's to pick up that Christmas gift for the roommate who turned out to be not so bad after...
...Coast, he lost his job producing the Steve Allen Show, and was picking up relief checks when he cut My Son, the Folk Singer; he has been rolling in record royalties and showbiz success jobs ever since. In this garrulously ingratiating book, Sherman appears as a half-crass, half-crushed victim of his own success. "You've got to run very fast to stay where you are," he says, borrowing inspiration from Lewis Carroll. He insists that he hates...
White admitted that on such a tour he was bound to see "the best of America, the young, the enthusiastic, the idealistic, the hopeful to learn." He perceived nonetheless that Americans can be crass, narrow-minded and dismayingly conformist. Confined to a New Orleans hospital throughout the ordeal of President Kennedy's assassination and burial, he sensed that the whole nation shared something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence...
Garrulous comment to write groovy at the range of but I doubt that any coming a folk virtous to him. More critics place Rush at evolving city-blues somewhere obscurity and crass country. While purists may the motley influences gone into his style-- as disparate as the Swan Silvertones and Eric von Rush sings more good than most folksing today...