Word: crass
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...only does holding Kissinger's chair open indicate an unhealthy University-government combination, but, more generally, the facility with which faculty move from Cambridge to Washington implies a crass and widespread misuse of Harvard's prestige. The incentives drawing Harvard professors to Washington do not exclusively center on self-improvement (greed), but the desperation with which those men cling to the prestigious designation "Cambridge intelligentsia" probably does...
...light of Stillman's generosity, the recommendations of Professors Crompton, Reifsnyder and Wilson can only appear exceptionally crass. This no doubt helps to explain the Stillman family's disposition to oppose any voluntary sale of the land by the University...
...some years now, social commentators have devalued that myth by stressing the doubts and disappointments lurking in the garden. The American Dream, in their interpretation, has been dimmed if not extinguished by decades of hypocrisy and crass materialism, by the revelation of technology-as-monster, by the horror and divisiveness of the Viet Nam War and the rising of Consciousness III on campus...
...system of objects. Carelman thinks of everything and everybody, of the prolongations of technology as well as new categories of ignored consumers: acrobats, mourners, the one-legged ... The infinitesimal shift thus revealed to us is what separates poetry from reality, and the most invigorating humor from the crass stupidity of profit making." A child at the show was more succinct. "As a convinced masochist," he told the artist, "I take...
...humanistic view, which holds that students, faculty, and administrators together represent a community in which all members must contribute to decisions affecting the whole, has been ignored. Yet students have not been granted a decision-making role commensurate with their financial payment to the College. Even such a crass capitalist stance would be a considerable step forward from the medieval view that students are apprentices, who will soon be paying $3000 a year, in tuition alone, to subject their academic lives to the standards and demands of the Faculty...