Word: shamelessness
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...fact at their peril. John O'Hara's book has the spine of a skyscraper, with big-city sleaziness reflected in every panel of the glass-curtain wall. This is a Brechtian book in which a small-time heel, Joey (Christopher Chadman), with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, is letched onto by a rich, man-eating tigress named Vera (Joan Copeland), who loves him enough to stake him to a night club, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave...
Again this year the public's consciousness has been redirected to all this shameless business with the appearance of Lillian Hellman's memoir Scoundrel Time (on the best-seller list for eight weeks now), which tells the story of her own grilling by HUAC in 1952. As Miller would later do, Miss Hellman said she would answer questions about herself but would refuse to discuss anybody else. In what has become a classic statement, she declared in part: "To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent...
When I look around me and see the bold and shameless tactics which the Harvard administration uses to prevent its workers from unionizing, while students look on in detached amusement (one student even explained to me that she would work as a volunteer scab in case of a dining hall workers' stroke because, "I'm a liberal economist, I don't believe in strikes."); when I see a Medical School professor make a veiled plea for a return to the quite recent days when the number of black doctors graduating from the nation's medical schools every year could...
...Shameless Taft. Burger had only agreed to the question-and-answer gathering to help publicize last week's monumentally titled National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice-a meeting of 275 legal leaders to explore deficiencies in the system of justice. The irony in the decision to give his first press conference is that Burger, on the one hand, tends to carry his sense of dignity almost to the point of mediaphobia, while on the other hand he has energetically lectured and lobbied for legal reforms that he believes are needed...
...Shameless" was the word that came to many minds as Richard Nixon, driven from office 19 months ago under threat of impeachment, cavorted in Peking making foreign policy pronouncements (see story page 22). To what extent his Peking foray politically hurt the President who pardoned him is debatable; what is obvious is that Nixon couldn't have cared less...