Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rationalizing his lack of sympathy, Wilson writes, "Caring--empathy--is the vulgar expression of ideology, where ideology exists. Sometimes empathy is an expression of nothing at all." Last week he said "the moral culpability" between an average burglar and the Watergate burglars is "exactly the same. [There is] no difference in motivation relevant to the subject of guilt...
Unlike Hughes, I must confess to a vulgar taste. When I visit the National Gallery I don't seek modern American artists like Jackson Pollock, or modern European artists either. I find myself turning to the exhibits of Dutch and Flemish painters. Rembrandt could afford to be representational, but then he lived 300 years...
...independence as meaningless. Though the play has been hailed both in the U.S. and Britain, Matanzima closed it down and jailed Xhosa Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona (who appeared in it on Broadway last year) on the grounds that the play was "highly inflammatory, abusive and vulgar...
...rancor separated the fighters. Ali had been guaranteed $6 million. Norton would earn $1 million. Sept. 28 was payday, but as they worked toward summits of conditioning, the world yawned. Ali is proud of his ability to sell tickets, and at the public prefight physical, he staged a vulgar, raucous demonstration...
...many of the 15 Miss Marple novels, these people are just swift sketches. But readers savor them. Miss Marple herself is a fairly complex character and the one dearest to the author. She has changed somewhat over the years- but never enough to resemble the more boisterous, vulgar character played so well on the screen by Margaret Rutherford...