Word: crassest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geologist, Mather estimates he has taken oaths of allegiance to the Constitution "at least 50 times." His objection to the Teachers Oath centered around the need for a professor, presumably independent of the government, to take it. With such an oath, he stated, "Education would then become the crassest of propaganda and the fascist spirit would dominate a land from which liberty had been banished...
...history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Van Doren. a Columbia University English instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren clan, also enjoys a stranger triumph. Just by being himself, he has enabled a giveaway show, the crassest of lowbrow entertainments, to whip up a doting mass audience for a new kind of TV idol-of all things, an egghead...
...film begins-with one of the biggest (and crassest) lapel-clutch introductions a film ever had-Bogart, in clerical black, is seen staggering on-camera across the wastes of up-country China, a backward look of terror on his face and a wicked-looking .45 in his hand. He soon comes to a mission outpost, where he is welcomed as the new man the bishop promised to send. And yet, as the doctor's wife (Agnes Moorehead) prattles to her husband (E. G. Marshall), "there seems to be so much in him that wasn't intended...
...Taft-Hartley Law, and the Committee on Un-American Activities. He waged incessant warfare against liberal professors and anyone who wasn't Christian and individualist. A few days ago however, the News said in an editorial that "The Buckley book is characterized by naivete, misinformation.... and the crassest dogmatism. It is an... attempt to construct a new Yale along the lines of the scholastic institutions of the Middle Ages...