Word: eroticized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps a significant difference between our age and the so-called "classic" eras, indeed, between any culture and another, lies in attitudes toward physical beauty. American life and letters are largely centered on sex, but the failure of contemporary art, especially public sculpture--for most sculpture has always been public...
Fromm has adequate grounds for criticizing current notions of love as "sensation," or "market exchange." He also makes a worthwhile claim for a more mature idea of love based on respect for a different roles of man and woman, parent and child. But by shifting the ground to the conscious...
Double Duty Drug. Most geriatricians use sex hormones more sparingly than Dr. Kountz, and some are dead set against them. They doubt that it does any good to get an old woman menstruating again, point to the danger of excessive vaginal bleeding, and the chance that erotic interests may be...
Poison in the Beer. Liveliest chapter is Editor Michalson's own attempt to answer the question: What is existentialism? The layman's suspicion that it is some kind of clandestine wedding between Nordic melancholy and Parisian pornography, he admits, comes close to truth. "For . . . there is in existentialism...
In any case, Marilyn Monroe's hip-flipping, lip-twitching, frolicsomely sensual figure is the latest curve on the path of erotic progress that has led Hollywood from the slithering vamp to the good-natured tramp. Her physical proportions (37-23-37) have become a vital statistic, and the...