Word: vulgarizer
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Joel Stein's story on comedian Sasha Baron Cohen's movie Borat stated that "any normal person over 35 is going to find [Baron Cohen's character] Borat horrifying" [Nov. 6]. I disagree; I'm 37, and although I thought the film was as vulgar and far removed from political correctness as you can get, I was not horrified. It is a brilliant satirical look at global prejudice and without a doubt the funniest movie in years. You don't have to be under or over a certain age to know a sharp work of satire or pure comic genius...
...study Shakespeare?” In response, some of us choose to storm off in a pique of rage; others offer lofty bromides, fully aware of their inanity. All of us, however, are confounded, and perhaps vaguely offended. How dare this bourgeois challenge me to justify the humanities by vulgar utilitarian criteria? We pursue beauty, and to quote the French poet Theophile Gautier, “The most useful place in the house is the latrine...
...steering your kids into medical school?" The answers are quite often bitter, sometimes wistful - and usually negative. Partly this is not just a doctor thing. No father wants his kids to suffer, his boys to miss the good times, his girls to be toughened and, yes, coarsened, by the vulgar realities which nonetheless shaped him. Largely, though, the answers are "medical" ones and they revolve around two factors: first, that it seems a kid who can get straight As in a hard course of college study and 'delay gratification' for the ten years or so of training, can go into...
...creation of “The Market and Society” component is quite unnecessary. It would represent the undue prioritization of the discipline of economics within a general education. Worse, its inclusion is symptomatic of a kind of a vulgar pseudo-scientism that is unfortunately all too common to the discipline’s defenders...
...secularism in America, the way it seeps in everywhere, no matter how many towels you stuff under the door. It is, of course, an essentially unstoppable and hydra-headed power, which is probably why it makes the fundamentalists so crazy. It is, believe me, often as stupid and vulgar to me as it is to them. But it is also full of vitality and it is eventually bound to assert, for at least some of their children, the seductiveness of the forbidden. Lindsay Lohan is not going to save them. But some of them, someday are going to get hold...