Word: crassness
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...part of class officers, carelessness or willful distortion of truth on the part of poll-watchers and count-takers, short-sightedness on the part of the election committee,--all will come in for a share of the blame. But no individual culprits may be named; the atmosphere of crass negligence which overlies the whole affair obscures the cause of the injustice which has been wrought...
...accusations of heresy or originality, we wish to submit two suggestions: (1) that these intimations of direction for the educational process emanating from spiritual development of personality as depending on material opportunities, so recently extant in the columns of the CRIMSON, be hereafter and henceforth so limited in their crass materialism as at no time to exceed two paragraphs not more than one inch in length, and a postscript of not more than one monosyllabic sentence. (2) that the reason for the overemphasis of the philosophy of Mr. Isidor Lazarus be made the subject for further exposition in these columns...
...become a fashion amounting to almost an obsession for a great many Americans, especially those who are young, educated and have sojourned abroad, to deplore the lack of ideals, the "crass materialism," of their native land. The younger they are, the more educated they are, the longer they have sojourned abroad, in so much greater measure is their contempt voiced, till it has become almost the mark of culture and broad-mindedness to hold in contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always...
...vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more men who have lost early ideals during their four years than" he has "known men who have won new ones;" "that the greater number of the student body were desperately matter-of-fact, intellectually shallow, utilitarian, interested, the same as crass Philistines outside of College, only in money-making, women and amusements;" "That most of" his "classmates were easy materialists and hedonists, at best well clothed, clean-cut young barbarians;" and "that those men who did not drink were looked upon with something like suspicion." These are only a few sentences...
...literary conscience is especially inflamed against "crass stupidity in journalistic criticism." E. Bernbaum and W. A. Green grow positively heated over the ineptitudes of Boston, and other, critics of Ibsen and Shaw, and crush with grimness the wretched Grub Street on their wheel. Nay, more: they--especially Mr. Green--illustrate what journalistic criticism should be.--easily colloquial, anecdotal, popular, yet sound. Of course, the critics could rejoin that such writing means time and work: does the public want it badly enough to pay for it? Mr. Bernbaum, by the way, is depressed over the American public, is past even regretting...