Word: crassness
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Jittery France put both Feuchtwanger and Koestler in internment camps. The difference of their treatment is epitomized in the two books' titles. Feuchtwanger's "devil in France" was the crass indifference, apathy, venality, incompetence of French officialdom. His camp guards were friendly, often respectful-and always bored. The bulk of his fellow internees were "nonpolitical" or nearly so: Jewish scholars, doctors, lawyers, artisans, tradesmen; Saarlanders who had sided with France in the days of the plebiscite, fleeing into France when they lost; ex-members of the Foreign Legion, a few of whom had lost...
...parted. Of their contrasting characters legend has flourished ever since-Cousin Bertie McCormick, aristocratic, aloof publisher of the die-hard Republican Chicago Tribune, and Cousin Joe, masses-minded, erratic, lusty, ex-Socialist, publisher of the arch-New Deal New York Daily News. Each in his own way was a crass sensationalist. Joe got the biggest circulation in the U. S., Bertie the biggest in the Midwest. Said Friend-of-the-People Cousin Joe, onetime intimate of Bowery bums and taxi drivers: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...
...great peoples were beholden to him, from China to Argentina, to the far corners of the British Empire. Had he not said: "Britain is a good risk for a loan"? The statement might be highly debatable as to fact; editors might inveigh against it for reducing to crass financial terms a cause immeasurable in money...
...much immature as spiritually arrested, There is a touch of Goebbels about his propaganda-crass, bold and hard to nail...
...crass seduction distinguished Philadelphia's appeal, as five orators on-&-onned, pledged good weather (a perilous undertaking, even if the convention date had been set), displayed a certified check for $125.000. Sneered Philadelphian Kelly of Chicagoan Kelly's righteous appeal, "I can't imagine Jim Farley thinking there is anything indecent about $125,000." and promised that delegates would have a good time, said that "no place will be closed at four o'clock, not even Independence Hall...