Word: vulgarism
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...about the influence of Big Pharma on the practice of medicine. When doctors are being lavished with meals and speaking fees by the likes of Pfizer and Merck, can you really trust them when they later write prescriptions for those companies' drugs? Medical schools were long considered above such vulgar stuff. Now, however, it turns out that many professors and instructors are, legally, on the dole as well, and students are beginning to worry that what they're being taught is just as one-sided as what patients are being prescribed. Campaigns to curb the med-school cash are growing...
That's right, the designer of the t-shirt—who also happens to be Crimson Business Manager, and claims the idea was his roommate's—voted against his own shirt, and was heard expressing sentiments too vulgar for print upon learning of his victory in the design derby...
...practice of everyday life, in the fine textures of workaday relationships. It is awfully difficult. Service can’t be used to balance off an imagined moral ledger sheet or to cancel out privileges we feel bad about. Instead, we should try to avoid accumulating too much vulgar privilege in the first place—a quantity that isn’t measured in crude indexes like money or education or employment, but in the degree to which our social behavior trends either toward humility or toward hierarchism...
...Your interests lie in the area of nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Be honest—were we dirtier then or now? MBK: We would be shocked by each other. From a Victorian middle class perspective, twenty-first century women look like mannish prostitutes and men would appear vulgar and wimpy. On the other hand, we would be pretty shocked and disturbed by the amount of sexual violence and coercion that was a fact in the nineteenth century. We’d feel like prudes in each other’s company. 6. FM: Which is steamier: Penthouse...
...paid us that much money to move some lines around.”The biggest problem PepsiCo. faces, it seems, will be curbing vandalism–one can imagine how the new logos could easily be transformed into Pacmen, Pokèballs, or any number of other, more vulgar things. If you’ve seen the new look of pepsi, I think you’ll agree with me in wishing them good luck and Hoping for the best.—Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...