Word: vulgarity
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...retina-rocking glitter of new talent. Corin, 27, played his first big part (Sir Thomas More's son-in-law) in a big picture (A Man for All Seasons) and charmed the critics with a witty portrait of a political noddy. Lynn, 24, hit the top with a gloriously vulgar clang in a British film called Georgy Girl that left nobody wondering who was the most gifted British comedienne since Kay Kendall. And Vanessa, 30, interrupted an illustrious career on the English stage with two far-out and almost offhand film performances in Morgan! and Blow-Up that suddenly...
...speech to a group of Ohio bankers, he declared that the Depression was continuing because of a lack of business confidence?and that that lack of confidence had been caused by Roosevelt's basing "his political popularity on the implication that business is antisocial, unpatriotic, vulgar and corruptive...
...history miscast? The American people rather liked him when he first turned up in the White House. He was embarrassingly humble. He said he wasn't up to the job. But there was no escape. He decided, he acted. But for whatever reasons-was it because he was vulgar?-Truman's popularity kept going down, never up, and when he was elected President in his own right in November 1948, it was such a surprise as to seem to be a fluke-which it was. When Harry Truman left the White House in 1953, almost nobody seemed...
...best shows on BBC television is a situation comedy called Till Death Do Us Part. Its protagonist is a sort of Everyslob, an odiously vulgar xenophobe named Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell). Every Monday night at 7:30, old Alf gets on and starts sputtering away. West Indian cricket players? "It's amazing how them sambos have picked this game up." The Labor government? "Right load of pansies, they are." Prince Philip? "Well, he's a different sort of Greek; he isn't one of your restaurant Greeks...
...myself think of the myriad activities of his far-ranging life and of the stories which have grown up around them, my mind turns to incidents somewhat different from those used by your writer. I like to recall his moving letter to the Boston Herald in reply to the vulgar remarks of a columnist after F. O. Mathiessen's death. I like to remember the time when armed with nothing but quiet assurance he took an axe from the hands of a mentally disturbed student. I laugh to recall how his presidency of the Saturday Club led Robert Frost into...