 What word best describes Tynan's reputation in Britain?
Iwatched those episodes, and, incongruous as it may sound, I thought of Kenneth Tynan. Thirty years earlier, almost to the week, Tynan was interviewed on BBC television in his capacity as literary director of Britain's National Theater and asked if he would allow the theater to present a play in which sex took place on stage. Tynan escaped punishment, but he acquired a public reputation for tastelessness that he carried for the rest his life. There are a couple of credible candidates: The four-letter word for "vagina" remains off-limits in polite conversation (although that has more to do with feminism than with profanity), and the slang expression for those who engage in oral sex with males is not yet acceptable by the standards of office-meeting etiquette.
 Tynan was looked upon with condescension as a vulgar, rude figure
 Tynan was understood to be a fraudulent and sociopathic manipulator  Tynan was viewed as an attention-seeking, irksome personality  Tynan was well-regarded as an outspoken person who tells it like it is  Tynan was looked upon with condescension as a vulgar, rude figure