Word: crass
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Andy Protheroe is the midwestern brother of Stover's immortal ally, Doc MacNooder. Breezy, flippant, crass, unquenchable, he now, in the day of elective courses, appears as the perennial senior; and, rough clothes and manners having gone out, as campus: fashion-plate and ladies' man (snake, fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand...
...human mind (though these ecstasies are well known to him), but for the immediate benefits to society that might follow, if all men took thought or honored the wise men of their time. A realist, he does not despair of the Golden Age in a time of crass opulence, but sees this country as an adolescent that has really done extraordinarily well to produce a Dewey so soon. The country might well take unto itself another compliment for having produced a Will Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization of lives and literature which, for most people...
...beautiful chapel which is shortly to be raised is opposed by certain crass souls so sunk in materialism that they prefer the flesh pots to the beauty of tranquil worship in cool marble halls. And think of the poor boys sleeping their last sleep in France--what could be more suitable than this aspiring, finger pointing toward Heaven in perpetual memory of their noble exploits? And what is wrong with the present gymnasium besides the fact that it is old and-considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures. After all, should God be sacrificed because...
...Pennsylvania, replied with logic, bantering, merciless. Impeachment, they said, was a formal accusation, not a conviction. And it is the duty of the House to impeach?i.e., formally accuse?any official who they have sufficient reason to believe has not lived up to the standards of his office. Crass ignorance may be ground for impeachment, or drunkenness or indecent conduct. Improper use of influence should certainly result in impeachment. Ungrammatical Representative Reed of Illinois suggested to the House that "if a lot of you people were to be impeached for some of your conduct in using your influence, there would...
...French interest in Syria is not merely a crass, commercialistic one but rather the result of a long existing and sentimental tradition. Now that the French are in Syria they can find hundreds of reasons for not leaving. The saying is often heard nowadays, 'we can not scuttle' not only by the French but by the Americans and British as well. The French attachment to Syria is largely a cultural one which extends back beyond Napoleon's empire. French is the cultural language of Syria, the greatest universities and schools are French, and there is the additional religious interest which...