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...last week a bearded Korean elder, dignified and prim in starched white robe and black horsehair hat, picked his way along a reeking, raucous, filth-strewn alley in Pusan. He ignored the ragged, swarming children and the whining beggar women, who envied the succulent prize which the old man had in his hand. It was the gamy carcass of an alley cat and it was headed for the cooking...
...Prim or Prurience...
...notice that you remain faithful to the usual American stereotype of the "prim" BBC [TIME, June 23] ... What American radio station would dare to broadcast the BBC's unexpurgated dramatization of the Trimalchio's Feast episode from the Satyricon of Petronius? On what American network could one expect to find Bertrand Russell debating the existence of God with a Jesuit priest...
...years the British Broadcasting Corp. has led a prim, completely non-commercial existence. Last week BBC learned that, for the first time, it might have a brazen, home-grown commercial rival. The scandalous revelation was made in the House of Commons, where the Tory majority submitted a white paper that will 1) let BBC continue its simon-pure monopoly on radio, but 2) let some commercial TV stations be built by private enterprise to compete with BBC's four-station TV network...
...conquests. But not Ora. She clung to brother David and sister Ellen with parasitic humility. When they had babies, she came for long visits to help around the house. Soon she was there to stay, slavishly waiting upon and subtly corrupting her brother-in-law. Still prim & proper, she cast her body before him, and while David did not succumb, he was vain enough to enjoy her worship. By hints he urged her not to marry, and she was delighted to obey...