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...friend of Elia Kazan. He has directed a play of mine.-Perhaps I am, therefore, disqualified from commenting on your critic's incredibly cute and vulgar personal attack on him in the review of Splendor in the Grass...
Honorable, Vulgar Bribery...
There is no clear-cut line between bribery which is motivated by noble or public purposes and vulgar bribery. This fact, says Banfield, is what leads to the American public's "cynical view of the morality of politicans...
That Old Sprachgefühl. The result may pain purists, who will even find four-letter words ("usu. considered vulgar") in the new lexicon. They appear now because the most cultured (urbane, polished) Americans are used to earthier speech in fiction and drama. According to Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would...
...will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black Rolls-Royce complete with a uniformed chauffeur, while last year was just another vulgar convertible...