Word: vulgars
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...demonstrated in these two excellent collections the two poets have widely differing attitudes toward this defeat. It is, essentially, the fate of man in history, but to the dry, witty, elegant and overcivilized Cavafy, history is sheer irony; the Golden Age never was, except as a crude, sensational and vulgar replica of modern times and all times. To Seferis, on the other hand, history is a parable of man's oft deluded but intrinsically noble search for his own soul. Seferis recognizes human frailty...
...pain. In the first place, it seems inexcusable for the Advocate to print the work of a professional poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, Peter Viereck. In addition, the piece itself (scene 9 of a new play) is a clearly inferior piece of bald social criticism. Mr. Viereck affects an intentionally vulgar idiom, contrasting exaggerated modern speech with the play's Classical framework. Yet he lacks the touch that makes intentional vulgarity effective, and so produces an intricate sort of unintentional vulgarity...
...Latin entrance requirements, the establishment of Radcliffe and Social Relations--these were received with stunned but obedient submission. Now the time for silence is past; the time has come to speak out, for Harvard's Ages of Gold and Silver are forever gone, and usurping Brass anticks in its vulgar triumph...
...good deal of the picture is out-and-out sensationalism, smeared on with a heavy hand to attract the insects; and Fellini's selection of café society as a central symbol of evil is vulgar and naive...
...that apartheid-minded Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has walked out of the British Commonwealth, many South Africans of British descent find themselves in an awkward position. Though they recoil from the vulgar "master-race" trumpetings of the regime, they are uncomfortably aware that most did not fight it much, all accepted the comfortable benefits. Wrote one such South African to the Johannesburg Star, in a letter that was part taunt and part self-mockery...