Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cardinal Spellman's condemnation of the motion picture Baby Doll has intrigued and greatly puzzled me. If it is a sin to see this picture, it must be assumed the cardinal himself has not seen it. But how can the cardinal condemn Baby Doll if he has not even seen the film? Could it be the cardinal has committed a cardinal...
...real villain in the controversy over the morality of Baby Doll is neither Tennessee Williams, who wrote it, nor Elia Kazan, who produced and directed it, nor New York's Cardinal Spellman, who mounted the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral to condemn it. The villains are the advertising men who designed the singularly repulsive poster which decorates, among other things, a whole block of Times Square in Manhattan. While it is the usual practice for publicity men to emphasize sex in every film they promote, this time they have done us a real disservice, for their work is largely...
...fellows can become the source of execrable pleasure to him." He insisted that man fully realized himself only in the expression of his natural, i.e., cruel, impulses, that even sexual pleasure was most intense when it was accompanied by the infliction of pain. Society had no right to condemn perversions (of which he meticulously catalogued 600 varieties) since they were "natural," and he cited anthropological and travel books to prove that there was scarcely any aberration that was not sanctioned in some society. In the course of pursuing this logic, he mordantly attacked the hypocritical "virtue" of monarchical France, from...
...Prime Minister's intelligent head the simple fact that there's dynamite in those Russian peace-pipes and that while Soviet smiles may do the trick in Asia, only thousands of tanks will work in Budapest. The real point in this lesson is not to force Nehru to condemn Soviet aggression--he has done this already, even if the condemnation was painfully slow in coming; the point is to emphasize to India's leader that the problems of Europe are different from those of Asia, and that the NATO alliance, backed by rifles and regulars...
...Eternal Credit." Linking the U.S. position on the two menacing arms of world crisis, the Vice President said that the U.S. stand on the Middle East made the U.S. fit and qualified to condemn Soviet barbarity in Hungary. Such condemnation was the U.S.'s sole weapon, "since the alternative was action on our part which might initiate the third and ultimate world war." The Freedom Fighters of Budapest, said Nixon, won a great victory in the battle for men's minds. "The lesson is etched in the mind and seared in the souls of all mankind...