Word: shamelessness
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...Shameless Old Lady. Blithely disregarding the tendency of French film makers to accent the negatives of youth, this fledgling work winsomely salutes the positives of ripe old age. Seventyish but young at heart, the heroine has barely buried her husband when her grown children begin debating what to do about Poor Mother. Poor Mother soon ends the debate and infuriates the brood by doing just as she pleases...
...style. This time the hecklers got the better of him. Speaking in Gelsenkirchen during the last week of the campaign, Erhard was confronted by a grim-faced chorus of Kumpel (miners) who closed in about the speaker's platform carrying black flags and muttering about impending mine closings. "Shameless riffraff!" snapped Erhard when they booed him. "If it hadn't been for me, these louts and hoot owls would have rotted in their diapers. Never have I seen so much stupidity, impudence and meanness in one heap." It was hardly the way to handle angry workers...
More of the other poems in this issue are no more than the sum of their parts. They strive too hard for effects, and seem to come from the poet's vocabulary instead of his experience. The most shameless specimen of this kind of bombast is Worth Long's "Hope Unborn." For example...
...acerbic legal dustup, Ernest Hemingway's widow Mary tried in vain to enjoin publication of this book, contended that A. E. Hotchner had appropriated literary material that rightfully belonged to her as Hemingway's beneficiary, and accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money" (TIME, Feb. 11). Hotchner certainly will make money from this book: serialization rights were sold to the Saturday Evening Post for about $50,000, it is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and, with 60,000 copies in print, it is clearly destined...
Whilst other Maids a shameless Path pursue...