Word: prude
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...WALTER PRUDE...
Though her best characters are women, Cather was wary of her sex. In The Professor's House, the melancholic hero-obviously speaking for the author-decides that Euripides spent his last years in a cave "because he had observed women closely all his life." Cather was also a prude. We are not told Marian Forrester drinks a little but merely get "the sharp odor of spirits." In My Antonia, the local lecher is obliquely indicated by the comment that he set a former housemaid up "in the business for which he had trained...
...also ordered Grant's hair to be trimmed after someone remarked that his daughter must be glad to have him home. He was stunned by the sexual permissiveness of a movie that was not even X rated, and walked out of the theater. "And I'm no prude either," he insists...
...graduation in 1958, Segal was chosen both the Class Poet and Latin Salutatorian, the only time a student has received both honors. In his senior vear, Segal attempted his first play. The result was an eminently forgettable Hasty Pudding show called The Big Fizz. "Even then I was a prude. I refused to write those typically gross Pudding jokes. So the guys ad-libbed the most incredible raunch you can imagine...
Each of the Hollywood oldtimers was a veteran of the bad old days when onscreen kissing was a pretty close-mouthed business and cinematic adultery seemed something like bundling. Yet they expressed somewhat disparate views of the unbuttoned mores of modern movies. "Call me a prude or a square," said Dorothy Lamour, 56, "but I'm not happy with a lot .of dirty movies. What we did was sex, but it was clean sex." As samples of this phenomenon, Dorothy cited her famous sarong, "which suggested nudity," and her love scenes "in the jungle with Ray Milland...