Word: vulgars
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...Ballots and Bandwagons, Ralph G. Martin saw it as "a glorified national town meeting, mixed with a sense of circus and a huge tremor of hope and history." To H. L. Mencken, it was "vulgar, ugly, stupid, tedious, hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus. And yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour...
...cinematic merits, it seems unlikely to win even passing mention at any of the international film festivals. But in the New Senate Office Building last week, "0-7" was boffo. The movie, as billed by an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond, is "a vulgar, filthy, subjective thing of a woman disrobing down to her transparent panties...
...World has run very little news of the party, which is not making much news these days in the U.S. Nor is ideology pervasive in all stories. A critic took exception to an off-Broadway play, The American Pig, which ridicules life in the U.S. "The idea of satirizing vulgarity by being more vulgar backfires," wrote the critic. "If you murder art-somebody is going to pay for it." In the old days, it would have been rank heresy for a Communist to value art above social content...
...Lenin. Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart of a Dog makes it questionable how clearly he saw things, at least in 1925. To Bulgakov, the proletarian state seemed vulgar, mindless and infuriating, but the book does not give a sense that he felt menaced by it. The growing shelf of Bulgakov's work begins to take the form of a literary puzzle, and a trustworthy biography would be a useful addition...
...concentration on periods of interest which are not strictly contemporary. Only too frequently knowledge of the contemporary is quite a bore, and it offers very limited perspective. I should like to take in hand one of those bitter critics of modern Academia. Maybe I could get him interested in Vulgar Latin and Old Irish. He might change his mind and that would do harm to the sale of his bitter books...