Word: vulgarizer
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...when Menen was twelve, he was summoned to India by his grandmother, a formidable, high-caste Hindu of Malabar, whose views were quite unlike his English teachers' but equally definite. She received him "formally," i.e., seated on the floor (she considered chairs unspeakably vulgar), with "her breasts completely bare." "A wife who dressed herself above the waist," she explained, "could only be aiming at adultery...
...Vulgar Facts...
...Russians formally announced that they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public entitled to be hit in the face...
Ending with Absinthe. As might be expected, Leigh looks on modern art with loathing and dismay. His conclusion: it is all an indirect result of absinthe-drinking in mid-19th century France, which "ate away the brains of the French aristocracy and brought vulgar folk into control of the salons and everything else." The vulgar folk, Leigh reasons, thought everything that was different was good, and they slowly imposed their love of novelty and disdain for nature-painting on the whole world of art. Some of today's artists, huffs Painter Leigh, bristling his snowy mustache, have sunk...
...Cincinnati, Audio Controls Corp. offered a gadget to throttle TV commercials. Named Blab-Off, the device is a simple, remote-control sound switch, advertised to eliminate the "long, loud, vulgar, boring commercials that force their way into your living room." While the advertising spiel goes off, the TV picture stays on, so that viewers can tell when the commercial is over and switch the sound on again. Price: $2.98. Advertisements for Blab-Off have been refused by The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, possibly because the sales pitch was right up there with...