Word: vulgarization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...expression of scorn (if it was that: the musical's title indicates parody) for what others hold sacred. The "sacred" is a function of the collective consciousness; as such it is bound at intervals to fall into decay and to be visited with expressions of collective dissent, like vulgar satire...
Writer Malcolm considers togetherness "vulgar and stupid," but she warns that feminism "may be an even more invidious cause of unhappiness and discontent." It may well be, if some of its extreme tenets are adopted. But chances are that society will heed only the movement's legitimate demands. All the rest-motivated by what Helen Lawrenson calls the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men" voiced by "these sick, silly creatures"-is likely to remain unacceptable to all but the sickest and the silliest...
...interesting to note our President's declaration of victory after the Nov. 3 election [Nov. 16]. The facts, as we all see, hardly show a vast support of Nixon's policies or a swallowing of his vulgar campaign tactics...
Much as we hate to add to the expressions of rage that characterize our times, we feel that we must say something about Martin Kaplan's review of The Greatest Musical Ever Sung (CRIMSON, 11/19). Kaplan's review as well as Durang's play are among the most vulgar and offensive things to have come to our attention here at Harvard...
There is a stowaway on Noah's ark: Jonah. Two By Two is a jinxed musical arch, vulgar, lumbering, stale. It may conceivably make scores of theater- party ticket purchasers curse their favorite charities for months to come. There is, of course, Danny Kaye as Noah, and he does everything short of scat singing a git-begat-gittle number...