Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon.") In Anarchy or Hierarchy (1937), Madariaga called for political equality but social hierarchy, since he believed that "inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty." His decades of exile, he once told a reporter, were not too bad since, he said. "I carry Spain inside...
Just before last Christmas, a racing-car driver entered the museum-like sanctum of Tiffany & Co. in Manhattan to buy a diamond ring for himself. A clerk told him that such a purchase would be "vulgar" for a man. The driver argued: "I'm a customer, and your job is to give me what I want." Sniffed the clerk: "What you want is your business. What we sell is our business...
With his hero's accident, Green transforms the novel from a typical schoolboy memoir into a remarkably mature meditation on losses and gains. He slips easily into the minds and emotions of characters around Haye: the boy's stepmother, an old nanny, the sad, slightly vulgar daughter of an unfrocked clergyman. All, in varying ways, must struggle to cope with the presence of a person to whom the intolerable has happened. He too must struggle to grow into his tragedy...
...When Alexander, for instance, says that confinement will at least allow him time to read War and Peace, the orchestra mocks him with a rousing bar from Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. When the colonel in charge of the hospital finally makes his entrance, he is preceded by a vulgar outburst from the organ...
Shedding almost all its English allusions, the show is thoroughly Amer- icanized and pervasively vulgar. Littlechap shoots for the presidency and makes it, the first Black ever to do so. Running for office on a ticket of doublespeak, Davis capitalizes on his command of antic mimicry. Donning shades, he struts his way toward the black vote. He woos the hispanics with hip-swiveling tangomania...