Word: vulgarizations
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...stern moralists who condemn Restoration comedy as merely vulgar should go and see the Brattle Theatre's production of Wycherley's "The Country Wife." They will not think the acted play less bawdy than the published play; but they might learn, in the two and a half hours of an excellent play excellently produced, that "The Country Wife" is more than merely crude...
That is the curious thing about Restoration comedy: like its era, it is a strange blend of the earthy and the refined. Amateur actors (and puritanical critics) in general catch only the earthy, or vulgar, spirit, missing the refinement which fires the whole...
Koerner's art runs right against the fashion. Most of his contemporaries make "paintings," not "pictures" as Koerner does. To them there is something almost vulgar about the word "picture"-something that smacks of photography. Koerner, they complain, is a mere illustrator, born 100 years too late...
...weeks ago the deputy chief of Western Germany's Communists denounced TIME to Frankfurt Correspondent Chief David Richardson as "the most vulgar, Red-baiting publication I know." "Vulgar or not," Richardson cabled, "we can call Communist headquarters and make an appointment to see any of the leaders at any time...
Temporary Halt. "Authors are never shy," observes Author McKenney (of other authors), "not even about details which leave the reader ashy-hued." But fortunately, her Love Story is sufficiently veneered with shyness to keep the apples in the reader's high cheekbones: though it is always a bit vulgar, it is never coarse. It takes the reader through a tragicomic record of Lyman ups & downs, including the death of Sister Eileen in an automobile accident, and draws to a close just before the Lymans and their three children take off for Europe...