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...happen," demanded Pravda, "that in the depths of the Ministry of State Security ... there could be fabricated provocational matter, the victims of which . . . [were] a series of outstanding leaders of Soviet medicine?" The answer: Ignatiev was guilty of "political blindness and gullibility." He had failed to detect the "shameless lies" of "criminal adventurers" like Ryumin; as a result, the Minister of State Security had "broken away from the people and the party," and therefore has been fired from his new job. The Soviet government, Pravda added, as if speaking in Beria's name, "punishes without regard for person...
...inhibitions and no intellectual pretensions. He likes to lecture informally, sitting on the edge of a table, and his earnestness and homely jokes win audiences varying from philanthropists to student doctors. When he wants to press a point with parents, he's a shameless exhibitionist, twisting his face with surprised disgust to imitate a baby spitting out the food crammed into it by a too-resolute mother...
...Leni became the reigning queen of German moviedom. Given the job of filming the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Leni produced a picture as artful as it was artistic. It took top critical honors at Italy's International Film Festival, and was later boycotted in the U.S. as shameless propaganda...
...prostitution--intellectual, I mean. In case you didn't know it, around University Hall they still remember '29 as the class that spawned the notorious keeper of Harvard's `intellectual whorehouse' . . . It took the war to get me out of the `Square', and to bring an end to my shameless battle for better instruction and better guidance facilities in the College. If anyone cares any more, I can report from the perspective of time and distance that Harvard is still far behind other schools in these areas. . . . In any case, quitting the battle of Harvard Square has meant starting...
...gives Pal Joey its distinction-its unabashed look at sordid doings-may always disconcert the people for whom musicomedy means moonlight & roses, or at any rate does not mean blackmail and kept men. O'Hara's account of a small-time heel with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, and of the rich, man-eating tigress who loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls, and shows them...