Word: crassness
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...true that the members of the Great and General Court showed crass stupidity in voting themselves retroactive pay raises after an earlier referendum for a smaller increase lost, but it is unlikely Massachusetts will get a better class of men for its legislators until it pays a better wage. The passage of the referendum simply denying a pay raise for the second time sweeps the question of what to do about the woefully underpaid ($5200 per year) legislature under the rug. Simultaneously, however, voters approved a pay hike for Boston policemen, boosting their starting salary to $6900. Neither salary...
Though he owns the nation's largest newspaper empire,* Samuel Ir Newhouse, 69, is often criticized as a crass financier whose only concern is his profit, who has done little to improve the quality of his often mediocre papers. But at Syracuse University last week, Press Lord Newhouse (TIME cover, July 27, 1962) drew himself up to his full 5 ft. 3 in. and watched as President Johnson inaugurated a handsome new building that will testify to Sam Newhouse's concern for quality in the press long after his critics' cries have faded...
...Protestant Council possibly justify spending $3,000,000 oh a pavilion in the face of incredible world need? With people overseas starving and dying of diseases that we can help cure! I pray that God will not let us bury ourselves in such crass materialism before it is too late to hear his call...
...Lindner assimilated the hubbub of urban New York, he combined his natural bent for satire with his impulse to depict city bustle: "You see women on the streets all wrapped up like candy packages," he says, and he is the artist of the concupiscent street scene, of crass crowds, of penny-ante popular life. "Macy's is the greatest museum in the world," he says. "You can study the people, the objects, the smells. Even the chandelier department is a sort of phony Versailles...
...leave Baton Rouge, you don't go to Cleveland") and began working as a model on Seventh Avenue, but quit after two months. "The garment center is a dirty place," she says. "It's all sweaty palms, yelling and screaming. They are not nice people. They are crass and they have no manners...