Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...names of lovers. "I notice the obscenities but write about the heart and the lovers," she said. "Ginsberg notices the heart but writes about the obscenities." In another part of the forest, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. genially kidded the grandstanding proclivities of Norman Mailer. "I think it's vulgar to hog the news to the extent Mailer does," he told a seminar. As to why Mailer does it, Vonnegut said that he has found that "careers last 20 years. It's true of baseball players and chess masters, so you see it has nothing to do with brains...
...likely to produce another Shakespeare or a Bible translation equivalent to that produced by King James' bench of learned men. They wrote when English was young, vital and untutored. English in 1971 is an old, overworked language, freshened sporadically only by foreign borrowings or the flickering, vulgar piquancy of slang. All of us-from the admen with their jingles to the tin-eared scholars with their jargon-are victims as well as victimizers of the language we have inherited...
...charges in front of the Faculty need to he answered. There has been much publicity about the two "opposition members" of the CRR; another member of the CRR went to a member of the Senior Common Room of my House, and then attacked me verbally in a quite vulgar manner; and then Prof. Anderson charges that "at least one member of the CRR has revealed privileged information," offering no proof of his charges, and at a forum where no reply was possible. I don't think it would take great mental leaps for any of the Faculty to assume...
...Dick Gibson Show, like Portnoy's Complaint, contains enough comic material for a dozen nightclub acts. Yet it is considerably more than an entertainment. The banal and the profound, the vulgar and the touching, are humanely juggled into a vital blur-a brilliant approximation of what it is like to live with one's eyes and ears constantly open...
...surrealistic nightmare. The play within the play (titled "Loveland") is as depressing as anything I've seen in the recent months (and that says a hell of a lot). It is roughly a combination of No, No Nanette! and Satyricon. The costumes are out-of-this-world in their vulgar beauty, to the point of becoming eerie; female chorines turn out to be men; a sprightly tap-dance number turns out to express one character's perception of how he hates himself...