Word: vulgarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degrading perceptions of women were not found only in paintings, but also in vulgar songs popular on the streets of Amsterdam in the 18th century, Van de Pol said...
...true conservative thought is that it seeks to save elements in the social order worth preserving. The mistake of vulgar neo-conservatives is believing that everything is worth preserving (after all, things are usually rosy enough for them personally...
According to Romantic superstition, poets either flame out young or gutter into unheralded old age. A related notion holds that popularity is intrinsically vulgar and hence earned, always, by inferior poems. The facts largely argue against this mythology, and the accomplishments of Richard Wilbur, 67, make it look silly. For more than 40 years, Wilbur has written poetry that garnered both critical acclaim and public recognition, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Smith, and generously given foreign authors an English-speaking readership, translating works by, among others, Anna Akhmatova...
...imagine that, from time to time, you've thought my book unfair, ugly, and hateful," writes Elia Kazan, 78, toward the end of this bustling, bruising autobiography. "Here and there it is vulgar too." Well, er, yes, now that you mention...
...gross and repugnant in the eyes of most," Chief Justice William Rehnquist said for the court that to define and penalize the outrageous would require some very fine judgments, allowing jurors to award damages on the basis of their personal taste or "their dislike of a particular expression." Protecting vulgar parody may not be a pretty task, said Rehnquist, but it has to be done to give the First Amendment "breathing space...