Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrogant and downright vulgar can our Government and its agencies get? Snooping into the private life of great political figures like Dr. Martin Luther King [Aug. 17] is the limit. And as if this were not enough, J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI seems to have attempted blackmail. It is time, indeed, that someone seeks relief in court from Mr. Hoover's disdain for other people's privacy...
...brand of popular vulgar theater was burlesque, which nurtured many distinguished clowns and comedians, including W.C. Fields, Bert Lahr, Bobby Clark and Buster Keaton. In recent seasons, vulgar theater has again emerged in both the best and the worst senses, with nudity, simulated sexual acts and the unfettered use of four-letter words. Hair, Che and Oh! Calcutta! belong to this group, as does the latest entry, The Dirtiest Show in Town. Those who deplore these shows regard them as the flagrant commercial exploitation of filth. That attitude is far too simple; when three out of the top four...
...biographies of writers, W.H. Auden has said, "are always superfluous and usually in bad taste. A writer is a maker, not a man of action. His private life is, or should be, of no concern to anybody except himself, his family and his friends." Accordingly, in place of any vulgar chronicle of his life, Auden is offering this wise and diverting annotated anthology...
...fantasy of song and jest, with sumptuous scenic environment and an ensemble of beauteous femininity, prodigally clad in costly raiment." Throughout the '20s and '30s, pratfalls and epidermis at Minsky's warmed the Broadway night. From Boston's elegant Old Howard Theater to the vulgar palaces of Midwestern river towns, innocently dirty old men of all ages whistled and stamped at the sultry writhings of Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio and Rose La Rose...
...rather it did; at Woodstock, hip culture proudly announced that it was just a young Yahoo America, that those long hair types you folks been fearing out there just want their drugs and music, courtesy of MGM or Warners, it doesn't matter. The ballgame was over for the Vulgar Marxists; that's what Peter Townshend was saying as he clubbed Abbic Hoffmann off the stage (no, it's not in the movie). The game metaphor had won out. Politics is a game, see, and if you play politics you play their game. Controlling your own life is a Western...