Word: crassness
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Cops drifted through the crowd sniffing like bloodhounds on the scent, but most of those who were so inclined had come stoned--it would have been almost crass to light up in public. By and large, however, the police seemed to be breaking in a new summer approach. They were being friendly. News must have reached them that the word was out in hippy havens across the country that when Berkeley dies Boston will come alive...
...costs about $30,000 per year, probably more, to maintain such an individual. It is not, I insist, crass to speak of money in such a situation: Money is human life in a hospital. If we had more money we cohld save more lives. Remember, this man was hopelessly unconscious. Are we obliged to treat such an individual when he can be kept "alive" only by extraordinary means? Pope Pius XII answered that question plainly, clearly: "No, you are not," he said. A little later we can consider the Church's attitude to these and related matters...
...talent, new money and new freedom available, it is not certain that Hollywood can or will sustain the burden of living in a renaissance. Technical innovation does not in itself guarantee quality. There is some evidence already that the relaxation of censorship, for example, only replaces euphemistic cliches with crass clichés. Love scenes are not necessarily better because they are nuder. By getting closer to graffiti, movie dialogue does not necessarily get closer to the truth...
...Like so much else in American society, Black Power is crude in conception, crass in inspiration, rugged and opportunisticv in mode, and devoid of aesthetic," Martin L. Kilson Jr., assistant professor of Government, stated in an article to be printed in the British monthly Encounter...
...learns to expect. Almost one half of the immigrants surveyed by the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants (NCCI), which was set up two years ago to advise the government on the integration of Commonwealth immigrants, claimed that they had been discriminated against. Discrimination does not often assume so crass a form. Most employers would not specifically state that they hire on a discriminatory basis, but the NCCI survey found that the general attitude of employers was to hire colored staff only if the labor shortage should become too great, and then only for menial jobs...