Word: vulgarisms
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...striking plot if he had been able to think of them." But Maugham gives Chekhov his due: "I do not know that anyone . . . has so poignantly been able to represent spirit communing with spirit. It is this that makes one feel that Maupassant, in comparison, is obvious and vulgar...
Sample of Author Muggeridge's distaste for Russia: "Jerry-built immensity made and inhabited by slaves. Everything most bestial and most vulgar-barbarian arrogance and salesman servility; humanitarian sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...
...however, the CRIMSON is saying in effect, "Let us be gentlemen in the matter. . After all the objectionable aspects of Nazism are only used to keep the vulgar mobs in control. There is no reason why the methods which Gentlemen are forced to soil their fingers with in the market place should be used to discredit them among other Gentlemen in the drawing room. Business is business;" if the CRIMSON is saying this, then we can have no discussion with it. For we, too, consider that Nazism is the weapon of the German Gentlemen to keep the German mobs...
...fail to move his scientific enthusiasm or stir his particularistic curiosity: "It will be interesting to see whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people...
...announced last night that a new and rather unusual issue of the magazine would appear on the news stands on Friday morning, April 27. The feature article, by John A. Strauss '36, is entitled "Community Menace," a long tale of adultery in the Middlewest. Strauss avoids all that is vulgar and repulsive in this theme, which, as a result, is a very sane treatment of sex conditions in that section of the country...