Word: vulgarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From this it was but a step to supporting the Communist Party, especially when Marxists pointed out that while under capitalism, a writer is either a wretched hack or a vulgar best seller, under Communism he is a privileged employe of the State...
...these details emerged, the Yale Record broke off relations with the News, described the proposed celebration as "a raw and vulgar exhibition." The Smith College Scan printed a bitter editorial. Miss Juliana Cutting, a Manhattan social secretary, wired: "SORRY, NEVER HEARD OF SADIE...
After listening to the Philharmonic, elegant Mr. Thomson headed his review Age Without Honor. He shrugged at its Beethoven, compared its Elgar with "that massively frivolous patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic...
Carnegie Hall, full of 50th-anniversary feelings, rocked to its foundations. Even the Negro elevator operator felt that his name had been scandalized. Not since Critic Paul Rosenfeld made some vulgar reference to God giving a "positively farewell" recital on the trombone had anything so irreverent been seen in print. Herald Tribune readers...
...might suggest that to you I may appear to be pleased by nothing because I am not pleased by the vulgar and superficially picturesque illustrations of the American Scene to which TIME and LIFE have been giving continuous support for several years; and because my article upon which you based your deduction attacked the Museum of Modern Art for exhibiting this school to the exclusion of the opposing tendencies, which it ignores as consistently...