Word: vulgarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene Tunney, most scholarly of the ex-world heavyweight champs, turned up in the Saturday Review of Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
Though most writers agreed that the Hemingway influence had spent itself, they were less sure of what is to come in U.S. writing. Said Robert Penn Warren: "I know that it had better not be the cozy and vulgar version of sweetness-and-light longed for by the friends and relations of Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve...
...stone Cambridge's quarantining To you may have a hidden meaning; Pick out the place, then seek a nook, And browse until you find a book That deals with fairies, not the kind Occurring to the vulgar mind...
...given her the prize, got ready to exhibit The Lovers in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design. But after an Academy member huffed that it was "not a good moral influence," the 150-lb. Lovers was quietly removed from the show last week. Cried Mitzi: "A vulgar reason!" She had tried, she said, merely to convey the idea of a man and woman holding hands...
...rollicking good-humor which its author intended. That it did not fully realize its potentialitics is undoubtedly due to strict University censorship and the lack of experienced burlesque comedianship on the part of its actors. For "Rule A Wife And Have A Wife" is not great art--it is vulgar funny stuff which should be played (if it is not to be embarrassing) by those who instinctively understand it best--Mike Sachs, Bert Lahr, and Bobby Clark...