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...drops the accents of comedy and continues in a tone which is apparently meant to be highly serious. The writing in the last act is made up of the worst sort of pseudo-poetic prose, studded with such obesrvations as, "Life is a prostitute and death is a whore." The images employed are weak with age, except for a few borrowed from T.S. Eliot. Mr. Wulp, in short, quite effectively succeeds in turning his comedy to junk...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Saintliness of Margery Kempe | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

...Council put up its own candidate for mayor, organized a junior auxiliary in the high school. States' rights stickers began to turn up everywhere. White students appeared in class with Confederate flags sewn on their sweaters. They cried ''Nigger bitches'' and "Dirty nigger whore" at the Negro coeds. They threw eggs and stones, poured ink over the Negroes' books and into their lockers. Whenever their enthusiasm failed, members of the White Citizens' Council were ready to keep the trouble brewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Racists' Day | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Just as Mrs. Dodds was about to give birth, Boswell met the very heiress he was looking for-Miss Catherine Blair, "the finest woman I have ever seen." Overjoyed, Bozzy rushed off to drink Miss Blair's health, got very tight and passed the night with "a whore worthy of Boswell if Boswell must have a whore." As "a just retribution for my licentiousness," he "got a disease from which I suffer severely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Be Continued | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...this tortured soul, two buddies (Wendell Corey and Mickey Rooney) play what turns out to be a disastrously impractical joke. On a four-day pass, they bribe a pretty little Italian whore (Nicole Maurey) to teach "The Preacher" about the birds and the bees. She asks him to her room. He does not realize what she is suggesting. Like many people who suffer guilt in imagination, he is pathetically innocent in real life. She takes him on a picnic instead. He drinks buttermilk while she drinks vino, shyly confesses that she is the first girl he ever took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Walters, who was described by an admirer as "a whore, sir, much sought after by fast young swells." The public knew her as "Skittles," and her rich patrons called her "Skitsie." As "the self-crowned queen of mid-Victorian harlotry," she maintained herself in London in such magnificence that the toilet seat in her bathroom was upholstered in swansdown. She was one of the most accomplished horsewomen of the time, was among the first to become proficient in the sport of roller skating (newly imported from America), had the Prince of Wales at her Sunday afternoon parties. Lord Kitchener, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Improper Victorians | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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