Word: vulgarizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dick Gibson Show, like Portnoy's Complaint, contains enough comic material for a dozen nightclub acts. Yet it is considerably more than an entertainment. The banal and the profound, the vulgar and the touching, are humanely juggled into a vital blur-a brilliant approximation of what it is like to live with one's eyes and ears constantly open...
...surrealistic nightmare. The play within the play (titled "Loveland") is as depressing as anything I've seen in the recent months (and that says a hell of a lot). It is roughly a combination of No, No Nanette! and Satyricon. The costumes are out-of-this-world in their vulgar beauty, to the point of becoming eerie; female chorines turn out to be men; a sprightly tap-dance number turns out to express one character's perception of how he hates himself...
...entertainment during the Stein's visit, an event which at first seems so peripheral that its very prolongation, with Fleur and Bob making repeated moves toward the door, but encountering repeated delays in departure, generates a sort of comical unlikeliness. Julie Harris has her chance to pierce the vulgar invaders with insights and wit, surprisingly lucid coming as they do from the ingrown neurotic. Estelle Parsons prepares a special fruit "frappe" according to vegetarian specifications, sips her Manhattan and uses her considerable vocabulary to vent general anger and disgust. When Anna tells Fleur that good vegetable diets result in odorless...
...with professor Orlando Patterson's expression of outrage in today's CRIMSON (Jan 22nd) at attempts by extremist elements among Negro students in this University to exclude white students and faculty from public meetings. Indeed, this behavior, which cuts at the very roots of the University, is so intellectually vulgar and so morally reprehensible that it must be brought to a halt. here...
...final reaction. The Harvard University Faculty is, I think, indirectly responsible for the intellectually vulgar attacks that are emanating from some extremist persons associated with the Department of Afro-American Studies. I was a member, the only black, of the original Faculty committee-the so-called Rosovsky Committee-which reported to the Harvard Faculty in February 1969 a plan for organizing a degree-granting curriculum in Afro-American Studies. Our report, a section of which I drafted, followed in every detail the scholarly and intellectual precepts that must be followed in the establishment and execution of academic affairs in this...