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...Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio: with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Like an adolescent going through the Decameron avidly picking out "the dirty parts" and missing all that makes it great literature, Mr. Blanshard seems to go through Catholic writing looking for juicy tidbits he can lift out between strategically placed quotation marks, that he may condemn the Church seemingly with her own statements. To anyone familiar with the contexts so used, to say nothing of the spirit of the Church, this device is amusing if contemptible; but to the naive or uninstructed it can be misleading to a degree prejudicial to justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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