Word: vulgarizer
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Cambridge police have begun a lowkey campaign to cut down on the sale of buttons they consider to be obscene or vulgar...
...buttons were attacked last week by City Councillor Thomas H.D. Mahoney, who said they were "blasphemous, vulgar, and, in some cases, obscene." At Mahoney's urging, the City Council passed a resolution asking the police to have merchants ban the buttons voluntarily...
...Profile, a few of which are the reference to Mr. Finley's white hair (which retains its usual youthful color), the diminished attendance in Humanities 2 (simply false), and the ungrammatical Latin attributed with great unlikelihood to a former student of Norden and Wilamowitz (I pass over the vulgar reply). These allegations need no refutation, but they do seem inappropriate in the year when Eliot House, as now a nationwide community, is celebrating Professor Finley's 25th anniversary as Master...
...modern art world: "It is folly to say what is art. Works can become art by fiat -sometimes the fiat of one man. And it can be art for a while and then not art. It's obvious today that comics are art. Just because these things are vulgar, doesn't mean they are not art." Says the former director of the Tate Gallery, Sir John Rothenstein: "Art derives from the intention of the artist. But time is the only impeccable judge...
...joke book. "Bennett," says one fellow publisher, "is not an intellectual. He's not a literary man. He's an entrepreneur, an impresario." But that is only the surface of Cerf. Explains Epstein: "Bennett runs Random House as a conservative branch of show business. The company is vulgar to a degree. But what makes the difference with Bennett is how important he feels it is to have Philip Roth and William Styron on the list. Some other publisher would know a thousand ways to get rich without having one author like that. Bennett Cerf doesn...