Word: vulgarizer
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...grins a lot and laughs seldom. He is a dead shot with a pistol and a good rifle-shot. His greatest natural gift is being able to switch off the current of his personality whenever he wishes to be unnoticed in company. He can look heavy and stupid, even vulgar; and uses this power constantly in self-protection. . . . He is uncomfortable with strangers: this is what is called his shyness. . . . He avoids eating with other people. ... He hates waiting more than two minutes for a meal or spending more than five minutes on a meal." He eats anything from diseased...
Through the squalid streets of Zlatshev, a small Polish town near Lemberg. hurried excited Jews one day last month. They had heard-as had many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed...
...TIME lowering her moral standard? Is TIME losing its sense of decency? Or, is TIME just catering to that lower strata of society who delights only in cheap, vulgar outpourings of our two-by-four-simmering-gas-pot, political braggarts...
...these things his box was filled with bids, which he answered in person. By virtue of these things his classmates, descendants of the purest Puritans, or only sons of Midwestern farmers, his classmates who wore their shabbiest clothes as was the fashion, and who hated spending, which is vulgar, misunderstood him, then forgot him. So he devoted himself to the world of engraved bids, and at the end of the year received a polite note consigning him to that other world, from which there is no return--to Cambridge. The Freshman dropped from sight and mind, and of him nothing...
...trouble to perform it at all. Berlioz blared out his indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with as much pride and satisfaction as if they had laid a golden egg." Composing never...