Word: amoralist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This pitfall has trapped J. P. Donleavy in adapting his novel The Ginger Man, although he has fashioned an arresting amoralist as his antihero. Sebastian Dangerfield (Patrick O'Neal), an American studying law in Dublin, is life-prone and dead beat. His head is more often in his cups than his books. He is one of Nature's seductive heels, and in the most brilliant scene in the play, he seduces a mid-thirtyish spinster whose tempestuous flesh mocks her primly parochial morality...
years have marshmellowed Jerome Weidman. His 1937 bestselling novel stingingly chronicled the rise of a Manhattan Garment District amoralist named Harry Bogen who was sharper than a Seventh Avenue lapel. In fashioning a musical from that book. Weidman has turned his whole-souled heel into a halfhearted villain, poured sentimental goo over the satire, and given Harry a last-scene redemptive delousing unmatched since the Hays office took in ethical cleansing...