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...public and the public apparently enjoyed seeing art in the sunlight. "I don't like galleries," said one elderly park-goer, "they remind me of funerals." His wife agreed: "Outside you don't mind looking at pictures, and even statues, so long as they're not vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Place in the Sun | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Radcliffe's dramatic group, Idler, will produce Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata in defiance of a protest by the Radcliffe administration that the play is "vulgar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler to Perform 'Lysistrata Over Administration Protest' | 10/19/1950 | See Source »

...with great surprise that I found your Aug. 28 story accompanied by the most vulgar picture I have ever seen in TIME . . . Let's keep the "television gown" in its proper place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1950 | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...vulgar social climber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Past & Present Indicative | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

After fumbling a tricky grounder and letting three runs score, Ted came in for another round of raspberries. This time, before he reached the dugout, he replied with a gesture from the international sign language of obscenity which Boston sport-writers primly described as a "vulgar motion." Then, while waiting his turn at bat, Ted added one more gesture that even the most proper Bostonians were sure to grasp: he turned and spat disgustedly in the direction of the grandstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sorry, Fellows! | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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