Word: vulgarizer
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...will argue that Mr. Gershman's attack (like the Robert Klitgaard report now in preparation by Harvard University) is nothing more than another ideological onslaught which white America is now making against Black America, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan being the more vulgar manifestation of the same phenomenon. Such attacks, seek to pit Black people against other Black people (as the Klitgaard Report attempts to pit progressive Black people against progressive Jewish people) for the sake of the dominant white oppressor class...
...Poland this summer, the real workers have taken a little revenge on Marx and Communism's vulgar pretensions to inevitability, on the regressive hoodoo of the All-Daddy state. They have knocked a hole in the wall, climbed outside their totalistic system and marched angrily around it demanding things. That is very embarrassing. It is also, communistically speaking, impossible. It is a little like the old Second City comedy routine in which Ahab thunderously demands, "Hast seen the white whale?" and the other ship's captain calls back, "Yeah. We killed him yesterday." What happens...
...other outbursts of moral fervor, Khomeini decreed that all women must now cover themselves with "proper Islamic dress," and the Center for the Campaign Against Sin banned the sale of records and tapes of "vulgar music" from the West. The popularity of all these measures seems questionable: at week's end only some 300,000 responded to official calls for a pro-Khomeini demonstration in Tehran. That was an embarrassingly low turnout, compared with the millions who regularly jammed the streets of the capital at the beginning of the Islamic revolution last year...
...bandied about is without apparent limits. On talk shows like Phil Donahue's, ordinary people regularly recount stories of emotional disturbance, marital discord, incest. Men chat about their vasectomies, women about their hysterectomies. The spectacle of Lyndon B. Johnson flashing his surgical scar to the world, so vulgar at the time, seems comparatively genteel in retrospect...
...beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were other flaws. Gladys was a liar, cruel, selfish, perverse, vulgar...