Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lack of procreation or of marriage vows is not the issue; even Roman Catholic authorities hold that an illicit hetero sexual affair has a degree of "authentication," while a homosexual relationship involves only "negation." Roman Catholic thought generally agrees that homosexuality is of and in itself wrong because, as New York's Msgr. Thomas McGovern says, it is "inordinate, having no direction toward a proper aim." Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty and, in the words of one Catholic educator, of "human construction." It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute...
...have some ground rules to play the game." Princeton's Paul Ramsey argues that traditional Christian moral principles are authoritative and that "how we do what we do is as important as our goals." In 1956 the Holy Office condemned situation ethics for Roman Catholics as an illicit brand of subjectivism. Attacking Fletcher's presentation in Commonweal, Dominican Theologian Herbert McCabe argues that the new morality has no criteria to distinguish love from what is really self-interest. "How do you know that what you are doing is loving?" he asks. McCabe also charges that situationism fails...
...Mary Ann was packed off to a state school for juvenile delinquents-while Mrs. McLaughlin was arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. In effect, charged the prosecution at her trial, Mrs. McLaughlin's advice on how to avoid pregnancy had encouraged Mary Ann to have illicit affairs. A jury found Mrs. McLaughlin guilty as charged, and she was given a suspended sentence of one year in the workhouse and a $200 fine...
...analyzing everything written about Mary and the Scotland of her age to produce his defense. Some of the letters, he concludes, were written by one of Bothwell's mistresses. Others were actually written by Mary to Bothwell in the course of legitimate business, but then doctored to suggest illicit passion and intrigue. One of Mary's maids-in-waiting had been taught by the same writing master as Mary, and as a result her handwriting was almost indistinguishable from Mary's. Davison claims that at the urging of her husband, who turned against Mary, she forged...
...such overpowering imagination does not continue throughout the film. A modern adaptation of Electra, Sandra concerns the Italian wife of an American diplomat, who has committed incest with her brother. Visconti has strangely tacked a happy ending onto the tragedy, as Sandra overcomes her illicit feelings and returns to her husband. After the long emotional buildup, one feels robbed of the catharsis. Perhaps Visconti was attempting to pour new life into an old form by providing a different kind of shock at the resolution...