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Saddlesore Cowboy-Minstrel Gene Autrey and his music publishers collected $250 in damages from a Houston nightclub, whose comic was forbidden henceforth to drawl a vulgar tune titled 01' Gene Artery, a parody of 01' Gene's own theme that also slightingly mentioned his favorite hoss, Champion...
...darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference--to keep to the more general term--is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world... It is also true that, we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to call "the world," our estimate of the real world, as we argue from a part to the whole...
...wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor of enthusiasm is openly, or by implication, voted a vulgar thing...
...combine information with entertainment. A dozen Disney artists and animators under Producer-Director Ward Kimball enjoyed the advantage of a subject that is not only fascinating in itself but, since it soars off into the unpicturable, uniquely suited to their technique. They did not confuse the popular with the vulgar, avoided the error of talking down to the viewer. Mars and Beyond would be worth repeating if it went no farther than its tersely witty cartoon history of man's conception of the universe through the ages. Beyond that, it has fun with self-contained parody of science-fiction...
...establishing new nations across half the world's girth. From Morocco to Indonesia, the drive of Islam's women toward emancipation has kept pace with the drive of their countries toward independence. In Pakistan, where ten years ago cars were heavily curtained to protect women from the vulgar gaze of men, hundreds of still devout women now drive themselves, unveiled, to work or on their social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted practice, a husband landed in jail last April for having defied the law and taken a second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey...