Word: vulgarizing
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...worked its often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...
...still waiting. Most of the letters from listeners urged: "Let's have more of Gerald Kelly." Attendance at the exhibit increased sharply. But the London Daily Express primly editorialized that Sir Gerald "brings honor neither to his position nor to himself by descending to the use of vulgar expletives." Commented unrepentant Sir Gerald: "Did I say that the Man in Armour was a bloody marvel? Well, it is a bloody marvel...
...talking to her and suddenly she'd do a pirouette and you knew she hadn't been listening to you at all. Everything had to be rather beautiful, people had to be poetic-looking. She couldn't stand the noise of anything worldly or vulgar." Nevertheless, the classmate felt bound to add: "Most girls look like puddings at that age. Claire never did." On her 15th birthday Claire got her first job: in a BBC radio play, she played the part of a prostitute...
...about million-acre ranches. Son Jordan is married to a Mexican girl, aims to become a doctor and work among the poor. In short, says Author Ferber, there's hope for Texas yet, once this generation's crop of oil, cotton and cattle millionaires have had their vulgar fling...
...hand of the Machine . . . a sullen population of robots chained to the belt line, ridden by fear, bullied by threats and propaganda, and cozened by the vulgar mass arts and mechanical gadgets . . . a police state, ruled by Finance Capital through venal, illiterate political bosses, the FBI, and the generals, under the form of a sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production...