Word: prude
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Waiter, peddler, porter, steward. Teacher, preacher, author, prude. Kwame Nkrumah has been them all in his long career, but you can't keep a good man down. Two years ago, as a letter or two of praise poured in for his latest published theories on African socialism, the Osagyefo (Redeemer) made himself permanent boss of his country. Apparently he found that he was not busy enough, for last week, at 55, Nkrumah began yet another career. Hearing rumors that two generals were gossiping about him, he decided that his army needed new leadership, began casting around...
...PUSSYCAT. A feline prostitute (Diana Sands) purrs and claws at an above-sex book clerk (Alan Alda) and proves that if you scratch a prude you sometimes find...
...spot for "cuddling" at the 1958 British Empire Games in Cardiff, Wales, was St. Athan's Royal Air Force camp, where "strollers in the area usually ran the risk of tripping over somebody." Not that Dawn frowns on a little fun at the Games. "I'm no prude," she says, and after all, "swimmers have few delusions about the nature of the human anatomy...
...rest of the cast excels in comic parts of every description, doing full credit to Cumming's vertiginous imagination, "talking very beautifully" (as Me tells Him) in the poet's acrobatic language. Paul Benedict, a ubiquitous master of trades, is especially amusing as a drunkard, soap box orator, prude, interloper, private eye, gentleman, freak show barker, and Mussolini...
...reviewer has said so. It seems that there is hardly a literary critic on earth today who would risk seeming a prude in print...