Word: crass
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...page study -a good deal more interesting than the people it presents-of the slow maturing of Leda Fillmore, and of her relationships with 1) the memory of her dead husband, 2) her newborn son, 3) a difficult mother-in-law, 4) a wise obstetrician, 5) a somewhat crass young lawyer, 6) off-stage troubles in the steel company she has inherited. She marries the lawyer, who is inadequate as a substitute for her first husband, and wins the helpful advice and abiding friendship of the doctor. In the long run she is glad she married...
...point out that very many observers would label this view naive to say the least. They would hear in the booming guns along the Saar merely the clash of rival imperialisms. And they would see in Mr. Chamberlain's devious line of march from appeasement to war merely a crass game of power politics gone beyond his control. But Mr. Greene might be left to his charitable thoughts were it not for their alarming implications. For if they are true, is it not imperative that America once more go to war for the defense of human liberties and of democracy...
...something or other. Studies can ride--they're not important. But the canker is even more loathsome than this; for almost every "activities" man is living a lie. He doesn't write for the Record or the News because he likes to, but because he is a crass fame-grabber, because he wishes to climb the well-worn ladder of extra-curricular activities to social success...
...talk general culture in a drawling, modulated voice that makes what they say sound authoritative. They learn that Richmond is the real hub of the universe. They learn that amatory adventures in parked cars are considered by the local constabulary as "cohabitation." They learn to care not when crass outsiders label their school a country club. With a wave of the hand they point out the facts: Is not our law school one of the best in the country? And to Vag they said: Did not one of your own famed Harvard graduates of '37 choose to come here...
...Wallace, of course, was not so crass as to tell American farmers that they must take a number, must carry a card. Any farmer who wants to do so may grow all the cotton he pleases, store it in his barn, light a cigar with his AAA pasteboard and go unpunished. Mr. Wallace simply told cotton buyers, who are not a big or politically potent class, that upon them rests the burden of properly identifying the cotton. Furthermore, buyers, on pain of $500 fine, must strictly observe an AAA color line...