Word: crass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This demonstration takes on a whole complex of issues," said DSA member Damon A. Silvers '86. "It represents our opposition to the drift this country is taking toward a foreign policy of aggression and adventurism and a domestic policy of a sort of crass materialism...
...hours of community service for his involvement in a fraudulent real estate deal). Last week also brought news that Ferraro, who previously signed a $1 million book deal, has just filmed a TV commercial for Diet Pepsi. Reported fee: $500,000. Would all that loot seem like a crass cash-in to the electorate when Ferraro runs for the Senate in New York next year? She was not saying. But if she loses, she just has to rework one of her jokes: when her mother asked if Ferraro would really be elected Vice President, "I told...
...besides being a particularly crass example of last-minute vote scrounging, this post-mortem mailing illustrates in funebral glory how far out the process of political endorsement has gone...
...election, Keynote Speaker Mario Cuomo told thedele gates, "will answer the question of what kind of people we want to be." The Democrats knew what kind of people the Reaganites wanted to be. They portrayed Reagan's faith as a crass and self ish individualism. The Democratic way, as described in San Francisco, is a compassionate sharing, a mutuality, the nation seen as a family, each member precious and worthy of care...
That Mr. Kenxatta and BALSA could violate fairness and free speech for Jewish students indicates further their crass indifference to the unfortunate cleavage in national politics between some Jews and some Blacks, stemming in part from Rev. Jesse Jackson's irresponsible "Hymie" remark and from Rev. Louis Farrakan's idiotic comment on Hitler's "greatness." Whether Mr. Kenyatta and BALSA recognize it or not, such events at Harvard University are events "in-a-fishbowl"--readily transmitted by the media to the country as a whole, and thus subject to becoming fuel to a fire capable of getting out of control...