Word: vulgarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem, perhaps, is one of co-ordination. When Diensen is supposed to be tongue-tied and vulgar, Lunt is self-conscious and primly profane. Then Coward reverses his field and Diensen must be lyrically vision ary; here Lunt is up to the task but Coward falters. With long monologues about the physical glories of prospering America, Diensen drags his heels and the pace of the vehicle is reduced still further. Coward has been much more entertaining about Brooklyn than he is now about the rest of the United States...
...Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke III, convicted last year of being pimp for glamorous New York prostitutes, Manhattan General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente barred newsmen from the courtroom. Judge Valente imposed his press ban after ruling that "extensive press coverage to a case of this kind is catering to vulgar sensationalism" (TIME, Feb 16, 1953). Manhattan dailies promptly handed Valente a failing mark in journalism by giving much more elaborate, tabloid-style coverage to the "mystery" trial than they might have given had the trial been open...
...especially about the characters of McCarthy and his counsel. Roy Cohn-might result from this show. But in its first few days, the main point shown was that the legal trial, which everyone takes for granted, is a most complex and valuable institution-not to be parodied by a vulgar imitation of judicial process...
...moral passion, nor effect of intellectual light. There is rather an unconscionable amount of talk that sounds much more like writing, and of love-making that seems written by rote. Despite a lively and accomplished performance by Cedric Hardwicke as the Prime Minister and about 15 minutes of good, vulgar, second-act suspense, The Burning Glass is a high-toned bore...
...jumped from his car to hug the children. He shinnied up a Welcome arch so that one excited crowd could see him. He leaped a wire barricade to rescue a child in danger of being trampled. He joshed Communists who had called him "potbellied." That, said Panditji., was "vulgar." His impact was such that the Communists soon called off their attacks for the duration of his visit, and joined in the celebrations. "Welcome Pandit Nehru," their red banners read, but "Down with the Congress Party...