Word: carnalities
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...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 But the new material in his book, consisting of unpublished correspondence with the Shaws and diaries kept by G.B.S., merely stresses what has always been widely feared-that, though Shaw "enjoyed carnal concurrence"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...
...your story, we are told that the Albigensians adopted a "strict, other worldly practice of Christianity, and were virtually exterminated by the church." Do you consider that advocacy of suicide is "strict, otherworldly practice of Christian ity"? Are you in favor of the Albigensian doctrine of concubinage and unrestrained carnal actions, as "strict and otherworldly Chris tianity"? . . . If the Albigensian heresy had triumphed, it would have meant the destruc tion of civilization through the ruination of the home and family because of their anti social teaching on marriage. They were a threat not only to the church, but also...
...Jennifer's popularity, but no indorsing it either. She never seems very girlish or charming, nor can Janet Blair bring much beyond looks to the role. The play has bright moments and agreeable lines, but. for the most part, where it is not determinedly cute it is studiously carnal. It is perhaps enough by now that Mr. Herbert has turned youth into a commodity without also making innocence a gimmick...
...which Kowalski's line "You might not be too bad to interfere with," was vetoed for some indiscernible reason. Since this line was intended to suggest the first awakening of dishonorable intentions toward Blanche, Stanley's subsequent apelike pursuit now comes as a surprise. Legion attacks on the obvious "carnal" element in Stanley's relationship to his wife were not too successful; short of cutting her out of the picture, they could not wipe that smirk off her face...