Word: vulgars
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Newton, however, did not recognize the strategic value of the Cartesian definition, Koyre pointed out. Newton asserted that the "vulgar" concept of motion as something of absolute significance provides the necessary metaphysical foundation for scientific progress...
...primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices of life that it is impossible to dislike her. Among the tenants Author Lessing found types who, at first glance, might resemble people anywhere, but who in looks, sound and character prove to be not merely human but inevitably English. Only...
...dates back at least to Herod, the slayer of children and aspiring Christ killer in disguise ('and when you have found him, bring me word, that I may also come and worship him'); to Judas, the original businessman with the contract in the pocket; and to the anonymous vulgar Jewish farceur who, in answer to Christ's 'Eli', eh' forced a reed filled with vinegar between His lips." The twin masks of the Jew-mutilator and usurer thus had Biblical sanction "at a time when literature flourished under clerical auspices and when nine tenths of the corpus poeticum derived from...
...excellent judge of show material. His only criterion for picking a show, he says, is entertainment value; yet he is capable of producing a drama such as Becket, whose expense is as high as its quality and whose entertainment is largely cerebral. Such sleaziness as Suzie Wong and such vulgar overproductions as Gypsy are balanced, surprisingly often, by a worthy and hopelessly unsalable show such as Menotti's opera, Maria Golovin. He can haggle with a star over $15, more or less, to be paid a dresser, yet he is often liberal with authors' advances. He is widely...
...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. In one of the fall's best shows, Mike and Elaine in various skits leave tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human...