Word: vulgarizations
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...rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice of intellectuality to readability in the new magazine means a shoddy, superficial interpretation of Harvard life, the price for its existence will be exorbitant...
Which is a vulgar world, I fear...
Eddie Carr, the specialty man, is singularly unattractive and vulgar without being funny. The brilliance of his dialogue (on the cleaner side) is shown by the persistence of the fossil about the WPA workers who were mistaken for statues...
...Chicago is referred to not once but twice as "the hawk-nosed George Craig Stewart." For your journal to refer to the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the seventh largest diocese of this Church in such a manner is more than a discourtesy. It is an insult, in vulgar and impertinent language, not only to the Bishop himself, but to the 55,000 or more members of his diocese, among whom I am one. It is intensely resented, and should be immediately apologized for by your office...
Next to our native land, Japan seems to have the wheels spinning in a more orderly manner than eleswhere. No vulgar civil wars disturb the little yellow men, one of whom has just won a contest by raising a beard five inches longer than he is, far surpassing both of the Smith Brothers. This remarkable personification of Japanese resource carries his growth in a handbag when he goes walking, so as not to sully the end. So far from being confused, he seems to have a very highly developed philosophy of life. And with a beard like that, he must...