Word: crassness
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...City Hall, after crass cracks from Mayor Walker, Prince Takamatsu cried like a Japanese Romeo, "New York has been the city of my dreams! . . . Statue of Liberty. . . . Marvelous panorama. . . . We knew at once that this New York was great beyond all the dreams we had dreamed of it ! ... As we stand here . . . we cannot but feel that this city is as generous as it is great...
...valedictory damnation on legislation which seeks to govern "what we may or may not eat or drink, as to how we may dress, as to our religious beliefs or as to what we may or may not read." In an exhortation which without his rising preamble might have sounded crass at an American Medical Convention, he cried: "This is no longer republican government. It is tyranny. In the long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land...
...branch of the commercial field have had sufficient training to formulate any sound ideas on the subject. The cultural theories that see rightly a certain acquaintance with literature, art, music as highly desirable in producing that gentle abstraction, the complete man, generally trouble themselves not at all with the crass, sordid details that must crop up for every one without means, or desire to live in an ivory tower; and even the courses in college curricula dealing with the science of business are more involved in the evolution of the abstract than in the grappling with the concrete...
Though to those eyes and ears which do not abide Restoration drama in all its grossness this expurgated edition may be accepted with loss protest. A keen admirer of the Restoration gentleman, with all his artifices and crass language, chills and stratagems, will come away feeling that Pope's forever branding, "What pert low dialogue has Farquhar writ!" cannot possibly here apply, For Farquhar's diction, provincial and picaresque, his "unforced buoyant gaiety!" as Mr. William Archer has put it, has been so toned down for the unsullied Bostonian ear that Archer's daring, ".... you may have the same pleasure...
...Some of his scenes are realistic; most are interpretative. A philosopher-painter, he prefers to translate a situation as he realizes it. Soon he will take his pictures to the U. S. for display first in his museum, then in jails and school houses for the benefit of the crass as well as of the well-bred. Many to know what he is trying to say with paintings will need the aid of the scientific notes that he made incidentally on his trip...