Word: vulgarizations
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...Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
Argues Dr. Vossmenge: "In order to triumph over the world-this vulgar, gay, impulsive creature that is the world-you Christians have first to damn it." Retorts Pastor Degenbruck: "What do you know of the soul? The Greeks called this thing which has given you your professional label: psyche or anemos. Anemos means breath or wind . . . They wanted to express that there was something in man which was both intangible and beyond the grasp of reason-like the wind...
...suicide the answer? People "will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action." Is God the answer? He is "out of style." Is there a second chance? No, Adam used up man's only chance. In Camus' existentially-locked universe of absurdity and guilt without divine grace, no one ever releases the sinner from his cell. As The Fall ends, Jean-Baptiste apostrophizes the girl he allowed to drown: " 'O young woman, throw yourself into the water again so that I may a second time have the chance of saving both...
...result is disintegration of taste. "The [Catholic] community no longer has any means at its disposal for distinguishing one piece of work from another, provided both subscribe to the same moral code. A vulgar virgin is as good as a sensitively conceived virgin; the only thing that matters is that it is a virgin." The "generally low taste" of U.S. Catholics, according to Kerr, "has been a minor scandal for quite a time...
...assurance of an empress, and a likable low-downness all her own. The Ethel Merman who began as little more than wonderfully lusty vocal cords has expanded and grown into an expertly manipulated stage personality; and in a show business that so often turns the funny into the vulgar, she consistently converts vulgarity into...