Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disparagement of Wagner, and has begun to hedge a little in his public statements. "Wagner, a genius . . . yo, yo, a great genius," he conceded airily to a recent interviewer. Earlier he had made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been created a baron." About the music...
...deliberately, laboriously, vigilantly cultivated by the established institutions of medievalism, barbarism, and savagery, whose survival in a world of multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is an artificial product. It is not innate, it is not inevitable." Said famed Political Economist John Stuart Mill, "of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences...
...outstanding 52nd Street characters appear in 52nd Street. Scottish Crooner Ella Logan went to Hollywood last year from Leon & Eddie's, a loud, vulgar hot-spot specializing in bawdy songs. Cadaverous, fast-cracking Jack White, rowdy Roscius of 52nd Street's 18 Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom...
...here that the picture falls down, because artifice doesn't become Irene Dunn. She is best at good, clean kidding, and only when she breaks through with her own personality does the picture reach a high level of entertainment. Too often it tends to be vulgar, with a clumsy, unamusing vulgarity. In the last sequence, which would never have taken place if Cary Grant hadn't kept opening the door of their adjoining bed-rooms, Miss Dunn looks decidedly uncomfortable, as though she were wishing the picture would hurry...
...laugh than to make it cry or to thrill it. About the cleanliness of humor. Ed was serious, and leaned forward intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion, is a man who can make a gathering of people laugh with clean jokes, even if old ones, securing his laugh merely by his method of projecting his cleverness over the footlight...