Word: filth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard's manager, feted at a city banquet last year as scion of gracious living and upright tradition, is today as purveyor of filth. This formerly honest family man is new a corrupter of youth, the incarnate devil who not only takes the hindmost, but swathes it in a G-string to waggle before adolescent eyes...
When The Seven Deadly Sins first came to this country, some critics objected to Gluttony as mere filth. True, the story is only the retelling of a bawdy tale, but it is done so skilfully as to be delightful. Henri Vidal is riotously pompous as the traveling salesman who passes up a chance to sleep with a beautiful farmer's wife for a piece of cheesecake...
Byrne said he would ask Mayor John B. Hynes to revoke h licenses of the two burlesque houses when he returns from abroad. "We have a juvenile problem on our hands already and for purveyors of filth to be allowed to pander to audiences of all ages is something that should not be tolerated...
...statue was dug up some 30 years ago, during building excavations in Rome, but the real credit for its discovery goes to an ardent old (60) Manhattan art dealer named Piero Tozzi. Over the years, dozens of connoisseurs had examined the Diana without penetrating the deep crust of filth that clothed her. But Tozzi saw the divinity under the dirt, bought Diana from a Roman art dealer, and spent six months lovingly cleaning her. By the time he had finished the task this spring, museum men across the U.S. and from Britain were anxious to have her. Fortunately for Buffalo...
...older generation, he was an archenemy of the younger. In Noyes's eyes, for example the so-called "stream of subconscious ideas meant only "the entire contents of the garbage can and the sewer." He prided himself that his objections to James Joyce's Ulysses ("filth") prevented its being praised on the BBC, and he ordered Novelist Hugh Walpole out of his house for recommending it to one of Noyes's daughters. To a more modern generation of poets, he appeared the epitome of everything to be avoided in British traditionalism...