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We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and the vital.
I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of "values" that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.
Rosenman even dipped into the 12-tone techniques revered by the very high priests of modernism who thought his profession was debased.
His savage, profane descriptions of Nixon, his mockery of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, his characterization of any enemy as a "Nazi" or "the fourth Reich" or "the sixth Reich" enlivened (and, yes, debased) political debate.
It is well known that once-ordinary words for farmers or people of low birth became debased through class contempt-- knave, villain, boor , and churl are only a few examples.