Word: vulgarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THEATER: "American theater in France is a complete failure. Paris thinks that Broadway is vulgar, that its themes are prefabricated, that its psychology is elementary." Tennessee Williams and Erskine Caldwell are the only U.S. authors whom the French consider truly American, and their popularity is based on the public expectations that "there will certainly be on the stage a girl who will get undressed, or make someone undress her, or better still, rape her, which in American means sleep with...
...former glamour girl is down and out, shaken by the DTs, degraded by three nightmare marriages plus numerous vulgar affairs, and reduced to borrowing $100 from Tyrone Power-how can she rehabilitate herself? By turning to Alcoholics Anonymous? To a psychoanalyst? To the Salvation Army? Whatever else she tries, there is a handier way. She simply writes a book about...
...aesthetic criterion, however, is challenged most graphically by George Grosz. Sharp, biting, vitriolic, his satires often, as in "I Am The Boss," amount to a vulgar denial of aesthetics. Grosz succeeds in his attempt to revolt and disgust. His portrayals of lasciviousnes, corruption and wretchedness hit home with intended impact for they are executed in line and wash that are as sickly and depressing as their subjects...
...Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
Argues Dr. Vossmenge: "In order to triumph over the world-this vulgar, gay, impulsive creature that is the world-you Christians have first to damn it." Retorts Pastor Degenbruck: "What do you know of the soul? The Greeks called this thing which has given you your professional label: psyche or anemos. Anemos means breath or wind . . . They wanted to express that there was something in man which was both intangible and beyond the grasp of reason-like the wind...