Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negro Baritone William Warfield helps things along for a while with a surefire performance of Ol' Man River. And at welcome intervals during its uneven course between timeless songs and dated story, Show Boat brings on the dancing of Broadway's Marge and Gower Champion, whose bounce and...
* A gaudy melodrama, written by six anonymous authors, of whom Mao may be one. It portrays the suffering of Heroine Hsi-erh, a landless farmer's daughter, who is tortured by the landlord's mother, raped by the landlord's son, etc., etc. Her ordeal turns her...
In the field of morals Dr. Menninger finds psychiatry on the defensive. " 'Psychiatrists are wicked men,' we are told. 'They persuade their patients to a Godless, immoral philosophy. They repudiate the conscience; they advocate irresponsible self-expression to the disregard of moral law.'"
Pages Verbatim. The book he wrote, La Russie en 1839, has had a fascinating history. In 1930 Moscow dug it up and published it in Russian-intending it as a devastating testament of the wicked old days under the Czars. When the Communists realized that much of Custine's...
Harridans in Cholers. Priestley sets out to tell how an average British town plays its part in the Festival of Britain, quite against its better civic judgment. The festival is foisted on Farbridge by a certain "Commodore" Horace Tribe, a spurious old dear with "a piratical nose and tiny bright...