Word: novak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are widespread Catholic fears that such gloomy papal warnings against "radical revision" could lead to what Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak calls "a crisis of timidity" among the bishops. Taking their cue from Paul's warnings and from conservative clamor at home, bishops may be content to draw back from the full implications of aggiornamento. Already there are Catholics who complain that the council is a failure for having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope...
...little hard to imagine Lyndon Baines Johnson staking his Administration's prestige over recent performances by Carroll Baker or Kim Novak. But in the land that produced Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, the movie industry is seen in a deeper perspective. Last week the uneasy coalition government of Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro was threatened with a crisis over censorship of the cinema...
...past 3½ years, no fewer than 20 actresses with established reputations have appeared in various stages of undrape in various men's magazines, most notably Playboy. Among them: Carroll Baker, Jane Fonda, Carol Lynley, Elsa Martinelli, Shirley MacLaine, Kim Novak, Hike Sommer, Susan Strasberg, Liz Taylor and Susannah York. Some were in coy poses, some in semi-erotic, some had a phony "naughty-naughty" look in their eyes. The current Playboy shucks all that in favor of an actress whose view of nudity is that if it's classic, it's beautiful, even in Kodachrome...
...Flanders has the high spirits and Hogarthian texture of its ribald predecessor, but lacks Tony Richardson's slashing satire and bold cinematic style. Nonetheless, Director Terence Young (Dr. No, From Russia with Love) proves that the beast in men brings out the best in him-and in Kim Novak as Moll. Her performance as an easy-to-bed beauty for whom the flower of virtue lies ever beyond a thicket of thorny vices is not so much well played as well endowed, but it does reveal untapped energy in one of Hollywood's most marketable natural resources...
...film is flawed by a scenario that often strives to make raciness respectable. Defoe's Moll was a hardheaded tart who used her ill-gotten lovers for gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an end as a conventional romantic heroine. Appropriately, in Moll's real-life postscript, Actress Novak and Leading Man Johnson became husband and wife, which makes their wide-screen hanky-panky seem unimpeachably legitimate...