Word: crassness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arthur MacEwan, another assistant professor, said, in answer, "Seldom have I heard such a crass defense of elitism...
...inequity between rich and poor candidates would continue. But by anchoring every political flight of fancy to the crass facts of money, the Krakowski formula would be a form of truth in packaging, a modest destroyer of the adman's theatrical illusions whereby so many candidates are elected...
...long-distance phone, that sort of generalization would sound hollow, crass and unbearably phony, even at 450 a minute. But in a card−well, it resounds...
...turning the neurasthenic homemaker into a Mr. Belvedere, a kind of prissy know-it-all. "I must remain a kind of male Jewish mother, manipulating others as hysterical people do," says Randall. At the same time, he adds, Klugman has had to resist a depiction of Oscar as "excessively crass and vulgar, an unattractive middle-aged girl chaser. In the play, he is really a sensitive man. His sloppiness is merely neurotic...
...Jamison, commented most appropriately when he said: "I am not against youth as such. They are wonderfully teachable. But that they should be teaching us; that we should invest them with oracular powers, read into their shrugs and moans some great gnostic wisdom-this is an American superstition so crass that one scarcely knows where to begin with...