Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...status quo and of the people whom you're referring to, Charles. And I think that insufficient resources have been allocated to those who would make arguments critical of the status quo, but the resources for making those arguments are there in the law. I'm not as vulgar a Marxist as you are, Charles. That's what I'm trying to say. I don't believe the law is strictly the instrument of the ruling class...
Though she rejects "the joyful solidarity of the soulless," she has nowhere to turn, she is overwhelmed by the awful, non-personal intimacy of her aggressively vulgar mother Drawn to Tomas, she has become weak, for "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power." If it is true that experience is light, it is also true that love, seen by the lights of the intellect, shrinks away to almost nothing to be certain that it is love she feels, Tereza can only love what is unable...
...society at large, some of the cruder forms of sexism can be sidestepped. Approaching a group of men gathered outside a strip joint or porno movie theater, a woman can simply cross the street. Vulgar sexism becomes far more threatening, however, within a close-knit campus, such as Harvard's, precisely because men and women are so closely intermingled--usually in an impressive display of peaceful coexistence. To realize that the same men who "joke" about pig feast may be the guys through the fire door, is to feel suddenly ill at case among what was thought...
...past 15 years, Maggie Briggs has chased sirens as a hard-boiled reporter for the mythical New York Examiner. But she and her beefy sidekick, played with vulgar charm by Kenneth McMillan, have been lured into the newspaper's revamped Modern Living section, home for stories about boutiques and Mexican restaurants. "Walter," she recalls, "I saw my first dead body with you." Replies Walter: "Good times can't last forever, kid." The sassy and seasoned Pleshette could do credit to any town and role, but of all the show's fixtures only she seems credible. The hyperthyroid...
What does this mean? Will "vulgar and raucous supporters" henceforth be ejected from games? Will the student sections be broken up and dispersed? This veiled threat is uncomfortably similar to the one actually carried out last fall by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III in response to band "vulgarities." The band's shows are now wrongly censored; will the same soon be true of fan support...