Word: pander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press any ease. "Can the Pope," asked he, "remain indifferent to press accounts which have nothing to do with instructions or honest information? Does his heart not suffer at the thought of the poison broadcast widely, without concern for so many innocents? Can it be legitimate to pander to morbid curiosity with details and descriptions that had better be left in the files of the police laboratories and the courts? Is it ever licit to use every criminal act, over which it would be better to draw a merciful veil, as an occasion for descriptions and reconstructions that are nothing...
...What's wrong with American films and TV," he adds, "is that sponsors pander to the public's demand for a moral." Americans "get off easy" by identifying with virtuous characters...
...poet must not, however, use this refusal to pander to public taste as an excuse for obscurantism and the rejection of all audiences, Muir asserted. A poet always needs an audience for which to create. Often he doesn't find it--or it doesn't find him--until late in his career. He must therefore create it in his imagination. "Many of Yeats's poems were written this way, before he had found their audience," Muir said...
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...
...wringing about the 'fate of the humanities'." He goes on to say, "Much of what passes for appreciation of the arts and letters in some circles is a combination of antiquarianism, a collector's instinct and the old snob appeal of a 'gentleman's education.' The academic people who pander to these tastes to my mind do a positive disservice to the humanistic tradition, which is in fact the tradition of the continuing triumphs of the creative human spirit...