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...their periodic thrusts at sin, the county sheriff's men raided a joint outside Houston last week, hauled away two strippers named Margie Lament, 33, and Mitzi Wright, 27, and charged them with indecent exposure. In court, the girls put up an unusual defense: it simply wasn't true that they had performed without panties or bras, because their union (the A.F.L. American Guild of Variety Artists) wouldn't permit such things. Verdict: not guilty. Grateful Margie and Mitzi gave the jury passes to the show. Next night, all six jurors went...
...part on obscure, impoverished, friendless or defective individuals and rarely on the well-to-do and educated. The church believes that each individual is sacred as a child of God, and that to legalize the killing of an offender is to deny the basic Christian doctrines of forgiveness of sin and the power of redemption, and that mercy is a Christian duty...
...better sort of the inhabitants have entered into a resolution of enjoying free liberty in love . . . The men will very readily offer the young women to strangers, even their own daughters, and think it very strange if you refuse them ..." The news of islands where sex and sin seemed to have nothing to do with each other was to have a bemusing effect on poets, artists, sailors and everyday citizens for generations afterward...
...correct one in some respects, but in others it did not seem as if it was written by the same person. Why does Mr. Taub feel that he must bring up the "old chestnut" that has long been disproved of Williams being a "country club"? If it is a sin for Williams to have a "lush campus" or for any other college, then why are colleges trying to develop their campuses into spots of beauty? How come Williams has such a high academic standing, which Harvard Graduate Schools will vouch for? It certainly is not because we are living...
...Farrand brings a healthy bounce to the part of Mrs. Pinchwife, the country wife who wants to live like a town lady (i.e. in sin); and Jerry Kilty, as the husband who locks her in her room every time he goes out, mixes a healthy fear of cuckoldry with a humorous appreciation of the same state in others, and even a whimsical resignation to his own eventual fate. Miss Farrand and Mr. Kilty, the former by her expert overplaying and the latter by his half whimsical and half pathetic air, squeeze the most out of two very good parts...