Word: plebian
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...culture is staying adaptable. In days of rag, the jazz age, and now in hard times, Berlin not only anticipated the general feeling but styled it attractively, gave advice that most people wanted to take." Berlin was clever, but not too too clevah. His songs had a plebian sophistication - the wit everybody could...
...removed from experience as it is mediated by, well, media, one worries that much cannot be seen in the mirror. The quotidian fabric of facts which is the foundation not simply for media’s actual operation but of its very claim to authority is one such. How plebian these foundational questions seem; how ordinary! Yet it is very dangerous when an institution becomes sufficiently myopic that its own cryptic doings and intricate rituals are allowed to obscure the realities which make it possible. In such cases one turns to the full range of the term...
From that point forward, director Joseph C. Gfaller '01 does an admirable job of creating a production true to the schizophrenic nature of its main character: at once serious and silly, musical and straight, philosophical and plebian...
...with time on her hands, but don't count on anything more than a confused graduate student. Research the labyrinthine academic bureaucracy for yourself and start thinking soon. At the end of your first year, you'll have to choose a concentration (calling it a "major" is just too plebian...
...were enamored with the stoic VP, we decided that his shindig would be thoroughly more intriguing than trailing McCain to Nashua. Skating across the ice to the lovely Holiday Inn, we followed Alter as he described his work at the magazine and his exhilaration on election night. We, plebian, pseudo-media, desperately attempted to compare our work to his, but before we made bigger fools of ourselves, we ran into the real fools: Gore supporters...