Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinguish sharply between what he knows and what is merely his opinion. From his constant association with the first-rate, he will have acquired a distaste for the intellectually cheap and tawdry; but he will have learned to discover meaning in things that most people write off as vulgar. He will get genuine pleasure from using his mind on difficult problems. He is likely to be humorous: he will certainly not be literal-minded . . . He will be eminently practical, not because he "took" practical courses in college, but because he will have acquired the rare intellectual capacity to distinguish means...
...Lambs has none of the droopy-mustached charm of Gramercy Park's Players. Its keynote is breezy good-fellowship-a slangy, vulgar love of life that has appealed, not only to pinochle-playing actors in loud check suits, but also to such men as Richard Harding Davis, Joseph Jefferson, Barney Baruch, Father Duffy, George Ade, Ring Lardner, John Philip Sousa, Stanford White, Victor Herbert...
...most instances his supposedly crude manipulation of line and what may appear to be a sloppy method of organization, in reality, are masterly examples of precise adaptation of style to subject matter. And it is equally absurd to criticize the Germanborn American on the basis of obscenity or vulgarity. Obscenity and vulgarity, in art at any rate, imply a certain amount of conscious effort on the part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem to be lacking in Grosz's work. Generally speaking, I would criticize Grosz on neither technical...