Word: crass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...university selling out by allowing itself to be used for such crass motives? Perhaps not, says Smith, who notes that universities have along history of taking a donor's money and then spending it however they please and sometimes displeasing the donor...
They believe that the American people are crass enough to hold their leaders accountable for their legislative action, yet not for inaction...
...conservative era" did not spring from Reaganite nostalgia for a mythical American Eden, or from a crass conspiracy of the greedy and heartless, but from international phenomena: the welfare state had grown too gargantuan, too ineffective and had to be cut back; it became clear that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...
...serves as fictionalized narrator). Yet an impressive cast -- Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness, Sinead Cusack -- cannot lift this PBS American Playhouse adaptation much above elegant name dropping. Despite snatches of Ragtime-esque fantasy and an ending that pays homage to Sunset Boulevard, the drama is hobbled by an old plot: crass Hollywood grinds down true artists, told once more with less feeling...
...artists and dealers hope that Cantabrigians discover there is more than "crass commercial venues" in the Square, said Alex Stevens of the Open Gallery on Mt. Auburn...