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...platform as McCarthy made for the exit. McCarthy later corrected himself: what he had meant to say was "ex-convict," for in 1950 Greenspun was convicted and fined $10,000 for violating the Neutrality Act by running arms to Israel. Ever since, Greenspun has gone after McCarthy with lurid charges in his paper, and McCarthy has paid them no public attention...
...attitude of "frankness" about procreation "is carried far beyond the needs of the curious child . . . [and] much of this spuriousness is perpetrated in the name of Freud, who [advocated] moderation and restraint; the parent was to answer the child's specific questions about sex but not deliver a lurid oration . . . He never encouraged exhibitionistic displays of nudity...
...parents of children attending high school complained to the board of education that teachers were reading the Communist party newspaper Akahata (Red Flag) in their classrooms and forcing students to sing the Internationale. Children were urged to see a current crop of anti-U.S. movies, notably Hiroshima, a lurid hate movie about the atom bombing, which the Teachers Union itself produced and sponsored...
...Lucrezia Borgia? To the incurable readers of melodrama and Sunday supplements, a woman of glowing and undimmed evil, literally the great femme fatale (usually poison) of the Italian Renaissance.* To modern historians, who have been quietly rehabilitating her, Lucrezia was a good deal less lurid but still deplorable: a woman who probably poisoned no soup herself but weakly watched the other Borgias doing such things...
...Women! (by Edward Chodorov) is an engaging comedy about the love affair between a middle-aged psychoanalyst (Franchot Tone) and a Freudian slip of a girl (Betsy von Furstenberg). On his wedding eve, Tone is disconcerted to learn from a new patient that his bride-to-be has a lurid past. A second patient, Anne Jackson, reveals that her embittered movie-star husband has decided to seduce Tone's fiancee to see if the analyst "can take it as well as dish...