Word: vulgarizer
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...think TIME is completely detestable because it is vulgar, prurient, provincial, snobbish, middleclass, self-righteous, dictatorial and phony...
...crawfish is a fish," he says. "I am a crawfish." Yet he has doubled the size of Harvard's Sociology Department, attracted a brilliant group of graduate students, and has probably written as many books in his field as any man in history. Although he scorns the "sensational, vulgar, misleading, and distorting press," he manages to cull yearly as much publicity as the average Hollywood starlet...
...confessed to the Rapp-Coudert Committee that he had been a party member for five years. He ordered Schappes to stand trial on charges that he had lied to the committee (saying there were only four Communists at the college), edited a "coarse, abusive, scurrilous, intemperate, scandalous and vulgar" Communist sheet, advised fellow teachers to Redden their students' minds...
Crotchety Realist Leigh blames modern art on the Algerian War (1830-47), when the French aristocrats began drinking absinthe, and the "lower classes," with their vulgar ideas, began to dominate the art world. Says he: "It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicious imbecility." At his pet abomination, WPA art, he snorts: "The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called murals all over...
...sickness, only to-day I learned about the reproduction of the Click's super-sensate and super-vulgar dirt-painting. Hence, the delay in my letter...