Word: vulgarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forced draft of war" is popularly supposed to have produced great advances in science. A vulgar error, says Professor I. I. Rabi, Chairman of Columbia University's Physics Department. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Professor Rabi looks gloomily back at the last five years -and gloomily ahead at the immediate future...
...quotations above indicate, "You Touched Me" frequently depends for its humor on the shock of ribaldry, but while it's not as tender as "The Glass Menagerie" it's never really vulgar...
...bill of lading' has become 'blading.' A fine sonorous mouthful like 'duty outside the continental limits of the United States' is brutally cut down to 'dutout' and a pulse-quickening designation like 'commander escort carrier force, Pacific fleet' becomes a vulgar 'comescarpac,' which sounds like a very nasty medicine. Other words sound like the grunting of very ungracious pigs, such as 'oinc, moinc, soinc,' meaning, respectively, 'officer-in-charge,' 'medical-officer-in-command,' 'supply-officer-in-command...
...that is really hate and submissiveness that is aggression, as well as much stuff that anybody's grandmother would have dismissed as just a dirty thought. But in the case histories, new & old, translated for the most part out of the Freudian pig-Latin into something resembling the vulgar tongue, the Freudians talk so that laymen can usually understand their sex theory. Examples...
...year-old Anthony Trollope. dean of British novelists, friend of Thackeray and George Eliot, suffered a fatal paralytic stroke. One year later, his many devoted readers were shocked by what they considered one of the most vulgar books they had ever read-Author Trollope's posthumously-published Autobiography...