Word: vulgars
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...inexpensive way of breaking down a social reserve that might be unshaken by the very darkest grey flannel, but with this break down the entire fabric of social dency and respectability is torn into shreds all for the sake of letting out a few miserable frustrations and filling a vulgar tradesman's coffers...
...York Daily News thinks it knows how to speak plain American, and can point to 2,000,000 daily readers to back up its opinion. The News is constantly reminded of its own vulgar virtues-sometimes from rather surprising quarters. The latest was a series of articles (just published as a book) in FORTUNE, by William H. Whyte Jr., called Is Anybody Listening?-an attack on the confused and confusing manner in which U.S. business generally expresses itself. Pointing to itself with pride as an example of how to do it, the News approvingly listed its own rules for getting...
...would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate step to solid respectability. The dignified Collège de France elected Existentialist Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty-an old school friend of Sartre's-to its coveted chair of philosophy...
...unnoticed back bench on the Tory side of the House came the clear, ringing challenge of a bright-eyed newcomer. He was studious Iain Macleod, 38, a Tory "backroom boy." Macleod startled the House with his opening remarks: "I want to deal closely and with relish with the vulgar, crude and intemperate speech to which the House of Commons has just listened." Then slowly, piece by piece, quoting Labor's own statements, he demolished Bevan's rhetoric. When Bevan, cut to the quick, jumped to his feet in protest, Macleod softly answered: "The right honorable gentleman has been...
Luckily, however, he is not in deadly earnest. The play becomes a fable as Pirandello spoofs the vulgar curiosity of a group of materially minded citizens in a Central Italy town, and shows the futility of their search for facts. The comedy has practically no plot, and what dramatic conflict there is arises from the characters' ideas rather than from differences in their temperaments. And yet Pirandello, along with the Brattle players, keeps the audience continually chasing around after new strands of evidence, trying to unravel the stories of the two protagonists...