Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubtful conjecture. It was difficult to think of it last week without an all-Russian cast in which every member has a real feeling for an earthy Russian village. But what Shostakovich has accomplished with his orchestra will long be remembered by all who listened to it seriously. His vulgar homespun libretto prepared people for something madly modern. Such a heroine as Katerina seemed ludicrously impossible. Yet when the curtain went up there were no fierce shriekings. Katerina was quietly, miserably restless as strings droned and woodwinds sighed. The audience instantly caught her mood and hated the old father...
...used for farm land. Although not a first-rate "academic beggar," Lee administered what money he had to good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce and applied chemistry, thus anticipating Nicholas Murray Butler's Columbia by some decades...
...Author-Grim-faced Vardis Fisher's life, like his hero's, has been hard. Says he: "I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless. . . . The only good book, in my opinion, is an honest book, and no book, I am sure, can be honest and wholly...
When Old Tutor Jorga rose last week to address the greybeards of the Rumanian Senate, they assumed that, as usual, his sallies would be spicy. For once Jorga spoke fairly seriously: "If His Majesty has sinned it is because he is human. Whoever gossips about a woman is vulgar and mean, and whoever thinks of the King as other than a ruler is out of order. Dabbling in gossip is unworthy of statesmen and characteristic of knaves and servants. All we have a right to demand of the King is that he know thoroughly the needs of the country...
...with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope, the outline of which was FURNISHED BY THE PRINCE HIMSELF. No part of the waistcoat is to be seen beneath the lappel. No silk facings to the coat, nor slashed sleeves. Shoes and strings...