Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors of UnitÀ Cattolica, daily newspaper of Florence, Italy: "We saw one day in the streets of Florence a woman of the aristocracy dressed with the most rigid economy, who wore on her naked breast a gold cross. The symbol of sacrifice and sorrow joined with the crudest form of mundanity; the emblem of redemption resting on perfumed flesh; the blessed, mortal bed of Christ put in contrast with an instrument of the most lascivious seduction...
...theological thinking since those earlier disasters, and the problems of theodicy* are as baffling as ever. But this is a plain case of high water. One can almost see why it happened. At least one can see why it happened where it did. Even those who hold the crudest ideas of divine justice can scarcely conceive it as operating only up to a certain contour line of elevation. It seems so natural for water to run down hill and to seek its level that those who look for manifestations of the power of God only in the wholly inexplicable...
...moral, it is simply a contemporary pageant of ignorance masquerading as "smartness," bigotry as uprightness, mob violence as morality, pleasure as the unpardonable sin, among isolated people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes, but toward the end the cast gets completely out of hand...
...alternative to myself. Professor Conant is lecturing in Fine Arts 3a at the same time in Robinson Hall on "The Derivation of the Christian Church." I have always had an idea that many architectural points in a Christian church could be traced back to nature worship of the crudest sort I would like to know about the origin of a church steeple, for instance...
...beyond all this the Intellectual Meat Market has proved already something else. For Saturday found crowds in that market and Saturday night found its coffers filled and its counters empty. Indeed, it has proved the modern craving for intellectual esteem. Language even of the crudest is now flavored with references to the cultural. And the intellectual ten minutes of reading a day raise multiple new literateurs. A new literature is springing from Penlmism and the literary aspirations of char women. Bennie merely guessed and guessed well. Anything intellectual, meat market or morgue, will draw a modern crowd. Fashion...