Word: vulgarizes
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...iron heel under which all aspects of student life are crushed . Following in the muddy footsteps of James Watt, Epps stumped on students' rights to listen to the music of then choice and killed the Grateful Dead. Epps ruled that the Harvard Band's use of Shakespeare was "vulgar" and ordered them to march to the beat of his drum. Freedom of religion will also be done away with in 1984 as the administration thumbs its nose at Jewish students who petitioned to reschedule Commencement so it wouldn't conflict with a Jewish holiday...
...victim, who requested anonymity, was reportedly ready to depart at 4 a.m. on Sunday December 4, when fraternity members made vulgar sexual comments and began to take their clothes off, according to an article in the Cornell Daily Sun last week...
...More often he sheds convention like an overcoat in springtime. There are reckless forays into nudity, called see-through in the catalogue; avalanches of silk that swell the exemplary trapeze into a balloon; decadent wraith-wear for psychedelic occasions. Is this foolery (all done before the designer turned 40) vulgar, silly, nutty? Yes, probably all three. But some of it is inspired. Viewed today, the 1967 "African" collection, which could be subtitled variations on a beaded curtain, looks fresh, funny and unabashedly theatrical. Because the clothes are strung together with relatively little cloth, they are an almost architectural fantasy...
...most novel political campaign. For the past month authorities have been waging a war to eliminate "spiritual pollution," a deliberately vague term that embraces every manner of bourgeois import from erotica to existentialism. According to Communist Party Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, spiritual pollution includes "obscene, barbarous or reactionary materials, vulgar taste in artistic performances, indulgence in individualism" and statements that "run counter to the country's social system." Ostensibly aimed at those with a taste for capitalist pleasures, the purge has begun to descend on any artist or intellectual who seems reluctant to promote the orthodox Communist vision...
...best upper-middles drive plain American models that are permanently dulled by a barely perceptible layer of dirt. Jeeps, he says, suggest that one of your residences is in a place so unpublic that the roads to it are not even paved, "indeed are hardly passable by your ordinary vulgar automobile...