Word: indiscreetness
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...much heat, obviously, had to come from more than a mere biennale. And although it may have been indiscreet of him, the U.S.'s commissioner to the Venice festival, Alan Solomon, diagnosed the real embarrassment: "The fact that the world art center has shifted from Paris to New York is acknowledged on every hand...
...into print. After World War II, he convinced Pius of the need to internationalize the Vatican's Italy-centered investments. Later, they say in Rome, he donated more than $1,000,000 to help the Holy See pay for the Ecumenical Council. Spellman would never be so indiscreet as to interfere in another bishop's diocese-yet the Vatican seldom takes any action affecting the U.S. church without an inquiry first to the "powerhouse" in Manhattan...
What's going on is sort of confused. Director Stanley Donen (Indiscreet) apparently started out with a sensible idea: with Grant and Hepburn on the payroll and Paris for a setting, why not tell a love story? But somewhere along the production line, he decided to make a thriller instead. Then he turned the thriller into a sophisticated comedy of murders. Then he let the comedy degenerate into a bloody awful farce, the sort of shaggy rat story in which the customers are the real victims-they are inexorably gagged to death. He: "Would you like to see where...
...Special Session. It will land with a dull thud on the party circuit. Word soon leaked that the report contains no suggestion that any ministers save Jack Profumo had been flagrantly indiscreet, or that the former Secretary for War had been guilty of any breach of security. However, the report was expected to criticize Macmillan's government for its failure to act in the Profumo case for more than a year after security agents were aware that the War Secretary was sharing Christine Keeler's favors with Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov. This aspect of the case...
Although the Labor Party concentrated on the security question, in public debate the Profumo case inevitably turned into a moral issue. Significantly, the unpardonable crime of ex-Secretary of State for War John Profumo was not that he was indiscreet and a potential security risk, but that he lied to the House of Commons in initially denying any relationship with Christine. Moreover, he lied stupidly, since he might have saved his dignity and his seat as an M.P. by admitting his misstep. As a limerick that made the rounds of West minster last week...