"Thin Moral Ice"
BLAMING adult misdeeds on childhood frustrations is a widely popu-. lar excuse among amateur Freudiansand professional movie-makers (says the critic of Time in reviewing a new film which exploits Hollywood’s hardestworn current themes: psychiatry and vicious -womanhood). None tthe less, church and state still hold a grown person responsible for his sinful and anti-social acts. Hollywood is cutting figure-eights on dangerously thin moral ice by suggesting to its huge mass audience that an unhappy childhood not only explains but somehow excuses a lady’s indulgence in bitchery and murder."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 7
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91"Thin Moral Ice" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 7
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