Word: prude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture, faithful generally to the play, tells the story of a small-town prude (Geraldine Page), a Mississippi parson's daughter who as she approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...
...Jenny Bunn cannot understand why every man who sees her behaves as if she were a hot cross. She is bright, friendly and no prude, although she is a virgin. But she is also stupefyingly sexy. Assaults of varying skill have been made upon her virtue almost daily since she turned 14, and unlike some girls whom men are always bothering, this bothers her, particularly after she leaves home to teach grammar school and falls in love with a Latin master named Patrick Standish. They meet, neck heavily, wrench apart, argue earnestly, and smoke more cigarettes than are good...
...physician, specifically a urologist, and don't qualify as a "prude." Nonetheless, your rundown on contraceptive techniques was to my mind unnecessary and showed very poor editorial judgment...
...high comedy. The ultra-pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved in sexual intrigue, even the innocent, deceived mates, is rocking the town with scandal. When one decent husband's eyes are opened, his affectionate if promiscuous wife harshly berates the prude. Then, drugging the virtuous lady, she plots with a procuress to make the lady believe that while unconscious she was violated by the town rake...
Paradoxically, the most effective ally of the flesh peddler was the prude. As a French police official explained, "The education of English girls is usually of such a strictly prudish character that, in their ignorance of the world, they offer themselves the easiest prey imaginable...