Word: spinelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Canadian citizen of French extraction fed up with the spineless approach of American authorities to law-and-order, I say "Hurrah for Pierre Trudeau" [Oct. 26]. Here stands a man nine feet tall, unafraid of the maniac minorities. May the powers-that-be in America take heed-while there are still powers-that-be to take heed...
Based on Henry Miller's squalid energetic novel, this wretchedly dubbed adaptation is little more than a spineless catalogue of affairs. Where the book had the decency to be pornographic, the film is merely graphic. All the women are passive sex objects, typified by Colette (Elsebeth Reingaard), a 15-year-old imbecile who literally has no idea what the men are doing...
...view of reality, America is under attack from junior barbarians devoid of all respect and patriotism, spoiled by permissive parents and spineless college administrators, misguided by essentially subversive professors and other intellectuals; under attack also from blacks ungrateful for the favors done them and unwilling to work hard enough when crime is so much easier and more tempting. In the other view, America is ruled by a hypocritical Establishment that prates of virtues it does not practice, instead putting profit above all else, fighting an immoral war for material gain and in pursuit of some insane imperialism, and racist...