Word: prudishness
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...decide on the artistic worth of one group over another? Is the Glee Club more deserving than a reading of Anna Akhmatova's poetry? Will the Undergraduate Council's next comedian be censored by a prudish colloquy of students and administrators? Calling for a distribution of space on the basis of artistic merit, a proposal only Senator Helms could love, has no place in a liberal university...
...plot of Erica Jong's new novel, Any Woman's Blues quite literally never gets out of bed. As the author herself says in the forward to the novel, "[It] is not for the prudish...It is throbbing and raw to a degree that will shock the most hardened libertine...
...kept seeing a phantom light over his bed) and timid to the point of paranoia (he refused any food sent to him as a gift for fear that it was poisoned), he was a compulsive gambler. It was his only vice. His sex life should certainly have appealed to prudish Ruskin, for it did not exist: he shunned women in the fear that they might be witches. But gambling debts led him to churn out hack paintings, with predictable results for his reputation...
...aware of the problem: White House sources say the issue has been raised repeatedly in recent years. Before the Geneva summit in November 1985, the senior White House staff received a National Security Council briefing on the Soviet Union's techniques for electronic surveillance and, for what is a prudish culture, its blatant use of sexual entrapment. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has issued at least three reports on the subject and personally briefed Reagan last spring on the vulnerability of the Moscow embassy. But all these initiatives died, White House aides contend, amid bureaucratic sluggishness and even...
...object of greedy curiosity. On the other hand, one may consider this book, 1980s-style, as an advance for the lot of women. We must reason that since Marylyn Monroe's body long ago entered the public domain, an enlightened feminist, such as Steinem, should hardly be prudish about reaping profit (monetary or literary) therein. It stands to reason that if men can gang-rape a woman, women can also gang-rape a woman--it's a free country...