Word: vulgarizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decried U. S. chauvinism, legal instability, corruption. But chiefly he indicted U. S. citizens, not their laws or leaders. Excerpt: "It is not primarily faithlessness to public trust, nor corruption in its more overt forms, with which we are menaced. . . . It is rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys as the dominating forces in our national life. . . . Nor is it a negligible circumstance that public opinion is at times insensitive to the insidious threat of moral turpitude in high places, so that even...
...more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity to European standards, the new geometric style of Frank Lloyd Wright was deemed "mad" if not vulgar, and quite beneath notice. Architect Wright did not worry. He found plenty of Midwesterners either new-rich or bold enough to take an interest in his personality and ideas. The farther west he went the better he was received. In California his rectilinear houses seemed a natural evolution...
...TIME to combat prevailing opinions on these matters. Until reading your good magazine, we had never heard of a "regatta" at either Oxford or Cambridge and the general view held was that Mr. Paul Melon was at Clare College. Do come to our aid in clearing up these vulgar sins respectively of omission and commission...
Sirs: After thoroughly perusing your commentary on Sacré du Printemps (TIME, April 28), we find something to which we object strenuously. Namely, the application of the word "pornographic" to the music of Igor Stravinsky. That word suggests something cheap, showy and vulgar. Brutal he may be-savage and colossally déchirant in his treatment of Sacré du Printemps, but never pornographic! Please retract-you do him a grave injustice. JOSEPH STAPLES JOHN H. HARNEY...
...Darkness and Peer Gynt. She likes to climb mountains, drive horses, eat spinach "because it reminds her of the country and gardens." Audiences watching her are reminded of Actress Claudette Colbert (TIME, April 28). Because she is an admirer of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and because of the vulgar significance which attaches itself to the word "broad," two years ago she changed her name, which had been Bertha Broad. Critics thought her performance in Courtesan a trifle vociferous but capable...