Word: maidenhood
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What shocks one epoch may fascinate another. And bore a third. Ten years ago, Rock Hudson pursued Doris Day across what seemed to be miles of snowy sheets. Doris retained her maidenhood beyond the final fadeout (and for many pictures thereafter), but the shrewdly timed movie passed for daring and became one of the biggest box-office hits...
...Liberal from Cornwall. "BOAC says such a project will earn dollars for Britain, but some might argue that prostitution does the same thing." Kenneth Lewis, a Conservative from Rutland and Stamford, threatened to take the matter before the House of Commons and treat it as an affront to British maidenhood. "A British girl," he thundered, "is perfectly capable of making her own dates-and so are American men." The Sunday Times chided: "There are visions of the flower of English womanhood being sold into lusty American servitude for the benefit of our sordid balance of payments. Poor old BOAC cannot...
...opened up the drama, shuts it down instead. Logan makes every scene appear to be viewed from the wrong end of a telescope, minimizing the story and simplifying the actions. When Arthur sings about fishing, he awkwardly pantomimes the act of casting; when Guenevere chants the simple joys of maidenhood, she is forced to remain supine for 32 bars. Camelot's fantasy land is about as enchanted as a dolled-up back lot at Warner's. The picture's few supernatural elements-Arthur magically turned into a fish and a hawk-are offscreen occurrences, as if Camelot...
Harvard Psychiatrist Graham B. Blaine Jr. (Harvard '40) last week added fuel to the debate. Supporting Monro in a Crimson interview, Blaine quoted one of those unprovable surveys on rates of maidenhood. His showed that between 1938 and 1953 the rate of nonvirginity among college girls rose from 35% to 50%. "Colleges put themselves in a unique position by allowing girls in boys' bedrooms," said Blaine, who thinks Harvard should and could draw the line at living rooms. But that was not quite Monro's point. "Every year we have a skirmish over social hours," he said...
...Cardin trot out their hautest couture; Maurice Chevalier sings a medley of old favorites; Thelma Ritter spouts excerpts from her treatise on contemporary mating habits. Soon all the 25-year-old virgins of Paris, apparently some 50 or 60 strong, go parading in homage to Catherine, patron saint of maidenhood. Woodward tags along, and St. Catherine tells her she'd better stop in at Elizabeth Arden's on the way home. Off go the glasses. On come the yawns...