Word: witlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor's dinner...
...sensitivity. The editorial itself, more inanely than shockingly-suggested that some Swarthmore regulations be adjusted in light of certain enlightening facts set forth in that modern classic, the Kinsey Report. The suggestion, as anyone familiar with the Swarthmore campus can testify, was an unneccessary as was the administration's witless reprimand. The Swarthmore incident is hardly an alarming example of censorship, but it has inadvertently uncovered a more important issue, and one more related to local interests...
...Angeles, Rosemary McCarthy, 27, asking for police protection from her suitor, John L. Hall, complained: "He follows me to work . . . tries to take me home . . . chases me . . . whistles at me from behind trees and peers at me from behind pillars . .. leaps out at me on the street . . . scares me witless by jumping at me from doorways." Protested 74-year-old Hall to police: "This is proper conduct for a man wooing a woman...
...Plush records the gradual social ascent of the muttony Moorhouses during the Victorian Era: their little intrigues, their innumerable dinners and tea parties, their meandering, witless conversations and their damp love affairs. (Like all good bourgeois, the Moorhouses reject the wild delights of love for the solid comforts of money and status...
...clear, calm day near El Paso, had flown upside down, and dumped 48 fear-stricken passengers* out of their seats. After some consideration they decided not to talk at all. But last week the Civil Aeronautics Board revealed the simple, if startling, truth. The whole thing had been a, witless practical joke...