Word: vulgarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malia felt that the Russian people "are charming, pleasant to meet, and interested to learn more about the West." Malia met Khrushchev and Bulganin at a cocktail party at the Kremlin. His impressions of the two leaders were that "Bulganin seemed bored and socially shy, while Khrushchev was vulgar and superficially exhuberant...
...double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with its own expert's handwriting analysis ("imagination, energy, naive assurance") and psychological deductions ("harmoniously developed, neither stupid, nor poor nor vulgar...
...supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed Lannan.) One Manhattan lawyer coldly refused to help, in the apparent belief that Poet Frost was some kind of subversive. "Don't you know there's a cold war on?" he asked...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...introduction of printing itself, he said, hastened the fall of the oral tradition by making large quantities of vulgar and sensational literature available to the public...