"Its empty aridity and degraded classical details are vulgarization without drama," she wrote, "and to be both dull and vulgar is an achievement of sorts".
Calling for stronger action against corruption, Vavi referred to multibillion-rand deals involving Zuma's relatives and associates when he said that politicians awaiting their turn to "feed" constituted a "vulgarization" of the alliance's liberation struggle.
In France the tradition haute vulgarisation—"higher vulgarization" or popularization never died and was seldom slighted by the specialists.
Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist, recently wrote, "The Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics.
(That anyone need take Steinbeck seriously as literature, the critic Robert Warshow once grumbled, was evidence of the "organized mass disingenuousness" and "disastrous vulgarization of intellectual life" caused by the emphasis on politics in literature in the nineteen-thirties).
One of his short essays, "vulgarization," has to do with overusing a fancy word.
Baseball, by contrast, has been seen by most cricket lovers as a vulgarization of the true bat-and-ball game, which Rudyard Kipling said defined what it was to be properly English.
Over the last few months, when Serrano's photograph has been labelled "blasphemous" his defenders have explained that the artist's intention was to call attention to the vulgarization and the commercialization of sacred imagery, but this does not seem to have impressed any of those who feel the work belongs in an incinerator, whether or not they've seen any of it).
Even his three-word campaign slogan — a vulgarization of "No More Bull" — was unprintable.
Are we really seeing "a new vulgarization in American politics"?
