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Joseph Heller, author of the far from prudish Catch-22, adds: "Now that we have established more dirty talk and more promiscuity in literature, we've established the obvious. What is accomplished by being specific? A reader's imagination is a more potent descriptive power than any author has. When everything is told, what you're left with is pretty crude and commonplace. The love scenes in Anna Karenina are infinitely more intimate than any explicit sex scene I can recall...
Surprisingly, the trattoria prospers, bringing unexpected fringe benefits. Signoret finds that she can still feel prudish about free love with a ne'er-do-well used-car salesman (Marcello Mastroianni). A neurotic colleague (Emmanuelle Riva) brings her son home to live for the first time. Another girl (Gina Rovere) meets a local construction man willing to help her build a new life. Then, inescapably, the past looms up to destroy all hope for a better future...
...rebuttal of the so-called "new morality" in sex, Hamill said. "The new morality may turn out to be new but not moral. If all sex standards are called prudish, then patriotism might be called sentimental or scholarship be called effeminate...
Some men Cursillistas have jeopardized their marriages by losing interest in their wives and homes. Not all bishops will even permit Cursillos in their dioceses. Critics of the movement also charge that the Cursillo relies on simplist theology and a fundamentalist approach to Scripture, tends to create prudish zealots who are convinced, like Moral Re-Armers, that they alone possess the real key to spiritual living...
...Prudish Zealots? The danger of the movement is fanaticism. A few graduates have suffered mental breakdowns...