Word: sluts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approaches. There are bloodcurdling ghosts, and friendly ghosts, and even some sad little ghosts. The South, with its romantic and blood-drenched history, produces surpassingly satisfying ghosts, but there are other excellent entries, too. Samples: ¶ Charles ("Brickbat Charlie") Dorsey, a murderous debauchee, and his ripsnorting consort, a Hungarian slut named Rose Mataz ("Razzmatazz"), lived it up lecherously and lethally in Natchez-Under-the-Hill in the 18705 until Charlie did Rose wrong with a waterfront wench, and Rose did him in with chilling finesse...
...Cinemactress Ruth Roman sailed for England to star in a new film version of Macbeth that sounded more like Mickey Spillane than Shakespeare. Said Actress Roman: "We're doing Macbeth on a sex basis. I'm playing a slut (Lily Macbeth). Joe Macbeth (Paul Douglas) is a gangster who turns yellow and leaves the killing up to Lily. I'll do it with a revolver. We thought a knife would be too bloody...
Taking mamma's advice to heart, Shamela is soon playing the untouchable so prettily that she sends the squire's temper as well as his temperature up, and he goes around raging, "Hussy, Slut, Saucebox, Boldface-come hither!" Shamela takes to her bedroom instead, but carefully leaves the door unlatched (Pamela always locked hers). When Pamela's door was forced, she would faint dead away, but when the squire comes "pit a pat into [Shamela's] Room in his Shirt," Sham flashes some impromptu but effective jujitsu...
...arrests, confessions and hangings. In that unhappy time, any human doubt or protest was called the work of the devil, and the one way to avoid punishment lay in confession of guilt. In the foreground of this Bay Colony drama stands a young wife accused of witchcraft by a slut with whom her husband has sinned, with the husband, at the end, going forth...
...exploded in the hysterical reactions of their elders, is badly slighted in The Crucible; through blurring what is the real point of Salem, Miller makes mere wraiths and mouthpieces of his characters. The play is curiously unmoving; while its foreground story is even without sociological relevancy. Turning on a slut's purely malicious lie, it is a kind of primitive Children's Hour inlaid into the larger picture...