Word: vulgarizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morning brings him a chirping plague of creditors, the numbing guilt of not loving a wife (Vivien Leigh) who is dying of tuberculosis, and the intrusive ardor of a romantic girl who is pursuing her own phantom of love. Around Ivanov, vivid, vulgar, irascibly self-absorbed neurotics drown boredom in vodka and talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. Ivanov punctuates their endless sentences with a bullet in his brain...
...Establishment pals sneeringly trounces him in a tennis match. Tinker ultimately sees himself as the girl sees him-inconsequential and rather desperate, not a galloping individualist who puts down society because it stinks, but a wobbly nonentity who is afraid to grow up and compete for all the dandy, vulgar goodies the world affords...
...traveling eye willingly returns. When the dress is not cut out, it is transparent. Slacks can and do go anywhere. Even men are abandoning their traditional drabness; tuxedo jackets now come in cerise, vests may be flowered. The New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard points out that "vulgar" is no longer a nasty word. "For the last few years there hasn't been an all-out new and exciting fashion that hasn't been just a little vulgar," she says, and quotes an interior decorator to the effect that "there is nothing worse today than...
Moving on to the Ginzberg case, and adopting a rare tone of seriousness, Krassner questioned Ginzburg's deliberate sensationalizing, just as the court had done, but contested the court's decision, based on exploitation and "vulgar promotionalism...
...maybe we could get rid of the bomb that way, if we could think of a way to advertise it with vulgar promotionalism," he added...