Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with great surprise that I found your Aug. 28 story accompanied by the most vulgar picture I have ever seen in TIME . . . Let's keep the "television gown" in its proper place...
...vulgar social climber...
After fumbling a tricky grounder and letting three runs score, Ted came in for another round of raspberries. This time, before he reached the dugout, he replied with a gesture from the international sign language of obscenity which Boston sport-writers primly described as a "vulgar motion." Then, while waiting his turn at bat, Ted added one more gesture that even the most proper Bostonians were sure to grasp: he turned and spat disgustedly in the direction of the grandstand...
...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...