Word: radcliffian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local burghers rallied yesterday to attack Radcliffe prudery as controversy simmered over a letter in Thursday's Boston Herald. The letter, signed "Radcliffian '58," denounced a cartoon about the Kinsey report now showing at a downtown theatre as incitement to immorality and mockery of marital fidelity (See page...
...contrary, wrote one Charles Wadness in yesterday's Herald, the movie which gives an animated view of statistics on petting and extra-marital affairs, is "clever and amusing. and not in the least offensive." Wadness chided the Radcliffian for her lack of "a sense of humor--and an appreciation of reality...
...enough not to be taken in by the quasi-sophistication of the film. Condoning marital infidelity in a humorous vein may go by the boards as fun but please consider the subsequent anguish, mistrust, and havoc it may provoke in the hearts of many married men and women. A RADCLIFFIAN--CLASS...