Word: vilenesses
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...whose vile Prescriptions, the Child is forbid Life...
...coarseness of speech, the slang and profanity, the rude, selfish manners, loud raucous laughter, the low standards of taste . . . the passion of our vile movies, our viler music, the craze for maniacal gyrations, euphemistically called the modern dance . . . are characteristic of a growing number of our youth today...
...what seemed to them the highest forms of both self-indulgence and self-martyrdom. They nourished what they chose to call nostalgie de la boue - "the longing for the gutter." Paul Verlaine, the outstanding poet of his day, was a diseased, perverted dipsomaniac who "wrapped his suppurating limbs ... in vile rags," lived off the earnings of prostitutes, and alternated between "maudlin ferocity [and] mawkish repentance." Accused of being decadent, he replied: "I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. ... It suggests a soul capable of intense pleasures. ... It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games...
Caesar Petrillo was not a graceful winner. The companies, he said, had resorted to "bitterness, injustice, trickery and reactionism which would do justice to slaveowners"; they had engaged in a "vile, indecent, malicious and filthy campaign of libel, slander and vilification." Crowed the Czar: "Honesty and fairness had now triumphed over falsity and fraud. ... If they, the companies, fail to change [their past course], the A.F.M. will not hesitate to break off relations and leave them to die by their own nefarious schemes...
...reference to the letter of three Harvard students . . . perhaps it was their own attitude which caused Shakespeares' splendid and frank play to seem "vicious, degraded, and vile...