Word: basest
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...with the flighty transience of popular music. It's why one cringes when, on warm spring afternoons, rock seeps into the Yard from open dorm windows. It's why, during Take Back the Night week, former Cliffies' dancing to Madonna's "Express Yourself" atop Widener's steps seems the basest possible blasphemy. After all, every music has its place--blues its dimly lit bar, opera its ornate hall, reggae its lonely beach; popular music belongs neither in cathedrals nor in the academic equivalents thereof...