Word: carnal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Dec. 24 review of Baby Doll is sickening. When you say an admitted stream of carnal suggestiveness is fit for your readers' attention because it is expertly served up, you insult your reader's moral integrity by implying that he has none. Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll. Who's kidding whom...
Baby Doll (Newtown; Warner) is just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited. In condemning it, the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency declared: "It dwells almost without variation or relief upon carnal suggestiveness."-The statement is true enough, but there is room for doubt that the carnality of the picture makes it unfit to be seen. The film was clearly intended-both by Playwright Tennessee Williams, who wrote the script, and by Elia Kazan, who directed it-to arouse disgust; not disgust with the film itself, but with the kind of people...
...Vienne (1311-12), one by Pope Alexander VII, who reigned from 1655 to 1667. Both agree that if two unwed people kiss with intent to fornicate, they commit mortal sin, whether or not fornication follows. But if there is no such intention, if the kiss is only "a carnal delight limited to the act of kissing . . . if further consequences are neither indulged in nor thought of, the sin is only a venial...
...beastly secret tucked up his sleeve. Ervine could now disclose it-and send Shaw's stock booming. But the new material in his book, consisting of unpublished correspondence with the Shaws and diaries kept by G.B.S., merely stresses what has always been widely feared-that, though Shaw "enjoyed carnal concurrence" with women, he thought he had greater talent as a playwright...
...assume "that we were all born yesterday, and that a vulgar pragmatism ought to supplant the bank and capital of traditional wisdom." Like most honest thinkers, he values the best of man's past and rebels against the notion "that the end of man is gratification of carnal appetite." He is convinced that the "social order now exhibits the symptoms of advanced decay" and is moving into "an Age of Gluttony." Who is to check the deterioration? Not, thinks Kirk, the materialistic liberals who, like the old Russian intellectuals, thought they were emancipated when "they were merely unbuttoned...