Word: crassness
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...begrudge the Physics department across the way from Paine Hall their ten odd electric water coolers for drinking fountains might be thought unkind by the S. P. C. A. But to the average mind, it does seem at least strange that a building with such crass luxuries should rub elbows with the physical poverty of a distinguished, if small, department like Music. The petition, printed on page one today, does not exaggerate the handicap that the present hole of a library offers to undergraduates and graduate alike. It totally neglects to state that a large part of all the scores...
...only when the crass, nationalistic realism of today is firmly borne in mind can contemporary dilemmas be understood. It is a mistake to look for idealism as a motive in the world of today, and it is a hideous blunder to let idealism put America in the role of the avenging angel. The bases of wars may be economic, but the consent of the people is won only through appeals to their souls. America must not misread the facts and yield to that common hallucination, the call of destiny. Otherwise this country is likely to undertake another Crusade for Peace...
...gave an exciting exhibition of forensic footwork to 500 conferees of the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs. Two months ago national charitarians had cried "Foul!" when, discussing the tax bill with newshawks, the Champion had scorned corporation gifts to charity as a crass method of buying public goodwill. With an artful shift, the Champion now declared that such donations "must come from all those whose developments have accentuated the congestion and the problems of community life...
Perhaps one of the most maligned branches of the World of Art is that of the dealer. The dealer has always been considered a rather crass materialist completely lacking in ideals or principles. This is more of a prejudice than a reality. Many of the dealers have combined most remarkably the pleasures of private collecting with the business of selling. The exhibitions organized under their auspices have often supplanted the inadequacies of the local museums and they also have been most useful in supporting, perhaps more in good times than at present, the contemporary artists worthy of patronage. One must...
...crass stupidity of continuing the policy up to yesterday seems almost incredible. Last year's drought, predicted months in advance by students of metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain...