Word: crassness
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...besides being a particularly crass example of last-minute vote scrounging, this post-mortem mailing illustrates in funebral glory how far out the process of political endorsement has gone...
...election, Keynote Speaker Mario Cuomo told thedele gates, "will answer the question of what kind of people we want to be." The Democrats knew what kind of people the Reaganites wanted to be. They portrayed Reagan's faith as a crass and self ish individualism. The Democratic way, as described in San Francisco, is a compassionate sharing, a mutuality, the nation seen as a family, each member precious and worthy of care...
That Mr. Kenxatta and BALSA could violate fairness and free speech for Jewish students indicates further their crass indifference to the unfortunate cleavage in national politics between some Jews and some Blacks, stemming in part from Rev. Jesse Jackson's irresponsible "Hymie" remark and from Rev. Louis Farrakan's idiotic comment on Hitler's "greatness." Whether Mr. Kenyatta and BALSA recognize it or not, such events at Harvard University are events "in-a-fishbowl"--readily transmitted by the media to the country as a whole, and thus subject to becoming fuel to a fire capable of getting out of control...
...going for $500 to $20,000 a bauble. In addition, and addition is the point, there will be a new perfume named for Krystle ($150 an ounce). On her own, Evans is lending her name to a new low-cal drink called Crystal Light. Won't all this crass commercialization muddy the good Carrington name? Nonsense, nothing sticks to the Carringtons. So why should this stuff...
...condoning the newsletter which was admittedly crass and tasteless But we found it no more insulting than articles written in the Harvard Lampoon, which is delivered at regular intervals to our door. The Pi newsletter was intended for Pi members It was delivered by hand, stapled shut, and addressed to a Pi member Why a Kirkland House woman opened a letter that was clearly not intended for her a is beyond us Holly Idelson's reference to a private newsletter as an official publication of an established club" which "implies an endorsement of like-minded thinking" is twisting the whole...