Word: vulgarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When "Diamond Jim" Brady was the towering pinnacle of vulgar glitter . . and Lillian Russell heaved her eternal voluptuousness against the hungry jackal gleam in the tired businessman's eye . . . art in America . . . was merely an adjunct of plush and cut glass . . . Its heart pumped only anemia...
...doing this just for circulation, remember Judas.' Well, it did start that way. But after three days, my motives had grown quite complex-until now I think only God can sort them out. We've managed to project God and Jesus Christ in a brash, vulgar tabloid. I think we've done a lot of good...
...Advertisement in Saturday's CRIMSON taken by the Young Nihilist Club. We feel it our duty to inform you the parent organization must of necessity deplore such vulgar popularization. Such tactics tend toward placing world nihilism in an unfavorable light...
...drab days in a furnished room in Rome seem well behind. It is typical of Author Moravia that conjugal hell lies just a step away from marital contentment. For at about this point Emilia takes to sleeping alone, begins to be less indifferent to the vulgar producer, and makes it plain that Riccardo bores her. The rest of A Ghost is a battle between the sexes fought out on the battlegrounds of character and personality, areas in which Moravia is one of the world's living masters...
...effect, Von Salomon claims to have shied away from the Nazis because he despised them. Their goals were not so bad, though their excesses were perhaps unfortunate; Hitler sometimes struck him as being loathsome and Goebbels and Goring as too ridiculous and vulgar. He would not join them-he was never, apparently, convinced of their ultimate success-but neither did he feel that he wanted to speak against them. He decided to be a spectator. He saw many of his friends hunted down by the Nazis, realized sooner than most that Germany was being led to destruction, but from...