Word: vulgars
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...clearly on the side of the angels, they have set aside all common sense. In the one-third of their work available in advance to critics, not one sympathetic white character appears. Not a single black man of less than shining rectitude turns up either. This is dramatically vulgar and historically preposterous...
...been no abler exponent of the Felkerian philosophy than the ingenious Felker himself. From its first issue of April 8,1968, his avenue-smart urban-survival one-upmanship manual has exerted an influence far beyond its current 375,000 circulation and Manhattan bailiwick. Though it is frequently footling and vulgar, the weekly's intelligence and imaginative thrust have given its aggressive boss the money-power to take over the raffish, rambunctious Village Voice in 1974 and, last year, to start New West, New York's California clone. They were to be only the first provinces of a Felker...
Rationalizing his lack of sympathy, Wilson writes, "Caring--empathy--is the vulgar expression of ideology, where ideology exists. Sometimes empathy is an expression of nothing at all." Last week he said "the moral culpability" between an average burglar and the Watergate burglars is "exactly the same. [There is] no difference in motivation relevant to the subject of guilt...
Unlike Hughes, I must confess to a vulgar taste. When I visit the National Gallery I don't seek modern American artists like Jackson Pollock, or modern European artists either. I find myself turning to the exhibits of Dutch and Flemish painters. Rembrandt could afford to be representational, but then he lived 300 years...
...independence as meaningless. Though the play has been hailed both in the U.S. and Britain, Matanzima closed it down and jailed Xhosa Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona (who appeared in it on Broadway last year) on the grounds that the play was "highly inflammatory, abusive and vulgar...