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...Older couples can marry without risking the danger of being shipped off to the funny farm by their prudish children...
CLARISSA HARLOWE embodies the bourgeois, prudish ideas of her family, and Lovelace is the monomanical assailant of the complacent power she wields by virtue of her chastity. Clarissa's latent and unlady-like fascination for Lovelace's sordid reputation damns any possibility of her innocence or heroism in Hardwick's eyes. She complies unconsciously in her own downfall. Hester Prynne, too, is merely a symbolic figure, and she persists marble-like, from the moment she leaves prison--"the place where radicals are made"--by becoming the epitome of the omnipotent New England matriarch, a self-reliant Puritan. Like Tess...
Things patch up and a two-year homosexual affair follows. Forster handles love scenes with exquisite tact, neither prudish nor extravagant, but by even the broadest of erotic standards, the novel is decidedly small-time stuff--gentle rather than sensual...
...vote principle and the Miranda ruling throwing out confessions from criminal suspects not advised of their right to counsel. An advocate of judicial restraint, he objected to intervention by federal courts in state obscenity cases unless the state action was "clearly the product of prudish over-zealousness." In a recent capital-punishment decision-the court's most emotional pending issue-Harlan argued that there was no constitutional obstacle to a jury both determining the guilt of a defendant and sentencing him to death. On many issues, Harlan thus was on the Government's law-and-order side...
...public, Hughes was often seen with the stars of the day−Billie Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino. In private, he visited many others−young, eager, and not too prudish unknowns. Hughes called them "crows," but he feared rebuff even from them. It was the job of one of his public relations men to see that the green light was up before Hughes ever appeared on the scene. He once boasted that he had deflowered 200 virgins in Hollywood; the wonder was that he could find so many...