Word: vulgarizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nathan A. Haverstock '53, as the father, was outstanding for keeping his acting comprehensible and avoiding vulgar hamming. Paul T. Broneer '51 gave a reasonably smooth performance as the crafty slave...
...Travel. The final blow comes when he learns that solid old English Seaman Jenkins (as Novelists Shepard and Shepard tell it) was really a fraud who never lost an ear at all. Disillusioned, he turns his back on the English, the throne and "the contamination of power and vulgar success," and sets off on his travels again...
...because they are real knowledge, but as badges of class and status ... like needle point among Victorian women . . . Hence the careful student of Europe today discovers, with a horror . . . that the so-called culture of Europe does not go very deep. The American often leaves his campus still vulgar ... but we do have the opportunity ... of impressing upon him the glimmerings of a notion that learning is not something apart from life...
...which often complains that U.S. movie critics are unnecessarily harsh, was asked last week to take a look at a copy of a movie magazine called Film India, picked up by Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...
...Actress Ethel Waters. It is surely one of the frankest self-revelations ever to see print, a combination of depressing sordidness and one proud Negro's piled-up resentment against the experience of white discrimination. It is also, just as surely, an American success story. It is often vulgar to the point of endangering sympathy for its narrator. It is crudely ghost-written in a mixture of Broadway pressagentry, dubious religiosity and chip-on-shoulder sensationalism. It also has a final ring of truth that may account for its being a March selection of the Book-of-the-Month...