Word: vulgarizer
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...interhouse" meals a nonsensical comment about ants was attributed to me. Members of The Crimson have never hesitated in the past to phone me for information or opinion. I wish that the writer of your editorial had had the courtesy to do so before crediting me falsely with so vulgar and irrelevant a statement...
...sure, there are those who are pleased for reasons of petty partisanship or from a vulgar enjoyment of that dependable old theme, The Mighty Brought Low. But there are deeper reasons for taking satisfaction in the whole squalid affair...
...native ground Peter De Vries, in Forever Panting, is off again, a touch more vulgar than before, word-playing his way through another marital war. This one includes a husband who develops a yen for his surrogate mother-in-law. John Cheever and Bernard Malamud have collections of short stories, both domestic, the one (The World of Apples) waspish and suburban, the other (Rembrandt's Hat) Jewish and urban. Evan S. Connell Jr., once more roving far from the Bridges of Kansas City, has produced Points for a Compass Rose, a poetic meditation upon the pain and perplexity...
...Aires in a search for guerrillas. Campora's promise to release jailed guerrillas who will work for "national liberation" brought a stinging rebuke from General Elbio Anaya, the Second Army Corps commander whose predecessor was gunned down by guerrillas. The army, said Anaya, will not permit amnesty for "vulgar, unscrupulous assassins" under any circumstances...
...story is too traditionally Truffaut -- a confrontation of innocence (equated with intellect) and brazen, vulgar ignorance that becomes a gutter sophistication. The ending, with Camille's inexplicable ascendance and her final betrayal, are barely believable. Truffaut assists her with a foil in Helene; nondescript where Camille is vibrant, proper where she is vulgar, and whose studied disapproval of the experiment masks incipient love. At the end of the film she and Camille pass at the jailer's desk during visiting hours; Camille on her way out, Helene unable to get in. As the film ends, she types the manuscript...