Word: shamelessness
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...Innocents (20th Century-Fox). Henry James once deplored The Turn of the Screw as a "shameless potboiler." There is irony in the confession. For in this little novel the creative flame that boils the pot rushed up from black abysses of religion seldom plumbed in this author's insuperably civil art. Though the book is known to schoolboys merely as a grand ghost story, it is experienced by mature readers as a demonological document of shuddery profundity. Some of that profundity is sacrificed to saleability in this film, which derives partly from the book, partly from William Archibald...
...Misalliance, first produced in 1910, St. George Bernard Shaw goes forth to slay the dragon of family life with his own jawbone. The two renowned fathers in the play are exposed as shameless old rips, their sons and daughters as scamps with serpents' teeth. The emancipated heroine, Hypatia Tarleton, says, "I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad. I want to be an active verb.'' Actually, she and the others are passive wordlings caught in a brilliant, bottomless Edwardian conversation pit. But if the people are stationary, the props are animated...
...rocks it in entwining arms, spasmodically tries to breathe it back to life with words of love, smothers it with the salty, sightless kisses of tears, the strangulated sobs of a soul bereft. She is an open wound bleeding passion, and the spectator sees what is almost too shameless to see, grief at the pitch of human endurance. In an admirable company-Athens' Greek Tragedy Theater, now at Manhattan's City Center after stands in Los Angeles and Chicago-Actress Papathanassiou most tellingly unlocks the memory of all human sorrow...
...Brecht, Mother Courage was a shameless war profiteer. He was disgusted when audiences invariably wept at play's end as Mother Courage yoked herself once more to her wagon, a mute indomitable symbol of humanity's will to endure...
TIME has chosen 15 U.S. scientists because the heart of scientific inquiry now beats strongest in this country. In the realms of pure impudence and barefaced, shameless exhibitionism this statement beats everything Americans have yet said about themselves...