Word: moralist
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...party in a "guided democracy," P.R.I. has awakened to the fact that its heavy-handed rule is more and more resented by Mexico's increasingly literate (66% ) and prospering electorate. The politicians got the word soon after Gustavo Diaz Ordaz' inauguration as President last December. A stern moralist ap palled by mismanagement and corruption in the government, Diaz picked eloquent, hard-driving Carlos Madrazo, 49, to head P.R.I. and rid it of crookedness and caciquismo (bossism...
...Night) and Hubert Selby (Last Exit to Brooklyn), are not pornographers, if pornography is defined as arousing sexual excitement. These writers have created a pornography of nausea, which if anything has the opposite effect. They are thus the enemies of the hedonist almost more than the enemies of the moralist...
Lazy Homes. A stern moralist of 46, Judge Stout totally embodies her mother's motto: "Make yourself useful." Raised in Oklahoma, she whipped into third grade at the age of six, later taught school and then earned law degrees at Indiana University. In Philadelphia, she practiced criminal law, became an assistant D.A., and in 1959 overwhelmingly won election to a ten-year term on the county court. Barely 5 ft. tall, she peers from the bench atop three extra cushions and often keeps no-lunch court hours that make attendants mutter, "She's made of steel...
...cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle. Harrison still talks his songs and sings his dialogue in a triumph of stylized, polished acting that would be memorable with or without music. Another holdover from Broadway is Stanley Holloway, raffishly repeating his role as Eliza's father, a dustman-turned-moralist who speaks some of Shaw's most corrosively funny lines-wisely preserved intact-then stops the show with the gritty low comedy of Lerner's Get Me to the Church on Time...
Strange Obsession. But eventually Prescott's detractors have their say. On the surface the old man is all assurance and firm faith, but Auchincloss neatly reveals, bit by bit, how forced that faith is. Prescott is a ferocious disciplinarian and moralist in order to cover his own numerous anxieties. He is strangely obsessed, for instance, with homosexuality. He encourages vicious hazing to make the boys "tough." All play is aggressively organized, and Prescott will not let the boys wander off anywhere in pairs. "I did not think a hundred examples of David and Jonathan were worth one of sodomy...