Word: vulgarizations
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...which often complains that U.S. movie critics are unnecessarily harsh, was asked last week to take a look at a copy of a movie magazine called Film India, picked up by Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...
...Actress Ethel Waters. It is surely one of the frankest self-revelations ever to see print, a combination of depressing sordidness and one proud Negro's piled-up resentment against the experience of white discrimination. It is also, just as surely, an American success story. It is often vulgar to the point of endangering sympathy for its narrator. It is crudely ghost-written in a mixture of Broadway pressagentry, dubious religiosity and chip-on-shoulder sensationalism. It also has a final ring of truth that may account for its being a March selection of the Book-of-the-Month...
...Sykes point is on the preachy side -and his allegorical Mollie is a bit of a slur on America, not to mention American womanhood. But then, Sykes is really talking to intellectuals who have long found Mollie vulgar anyhow, and who, without the caricature, might reject the sermon out of hand...
...Russia with an international commission and show them the graves of millions who died in concentration camps. I am ready to show them the camps where I was. I am ready to show them other camps. Then the commission will conclude that the thing called Communism is, in truth, vulgar fascism only under a red banner...
...treatise on parliamentary procedure which has been revised at intervals ever since. It includes a list of insulting words and phrases which the Speaker has ruled unsuitable for use in House of Commons debate. Among the banned expressions: insulting dog, behaving like a jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...