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...would prance into a brothel "playing drunkard and whoremonger with all the vocabulary at my command"-only to find himself clutching the hand of a fallen sister and begging her to reform. He even took one young prostitute to live with him and "encouraged her to weep over her vile life." He "read books to her every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Rusty Armor | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...have never in my life read anything so vile blind and corrupt as your interprettion (May 3) of the McCarthy-Army hearings . . . LAVERNE WHITT Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...little did Sir Gawain (played in rancho accents by Sterling Hayden) know that Prince Val had been abducted by vile Viking traitors, the lady Aleta being merely a tasty dividend for the false king Slidor. While Sir Gawain pouted in a brown study Val was clambering about Scandinavian battlements winning back his father's kingdom...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Prince Valiant | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

...Your vile falsehoods to destroy McCarthy should be jammed down your lying throats with a pitchfork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...stage a Gallicorgy after the style exemplified by Quo Vadis?. He prefers to draw out indignation, letting the characters condemn themselves by treating infidelity, indelicacy and even brutality as daily steps toward a Good Life whose only end is to escape boredom. Not that decadence is portrayed as innately vile. Rather, its syrupy charm cloys, smothering its cultists' sensibilities until stock motions, reactions and conversations replace emotions...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Rules of the Game | 3/2/1954 | See Source »

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