Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...servant of desire and has been without love too long. But she is repelled, slaps him, and rushes away. Neither one has conquered; but whether this means that the aristocracy and lower classes will never mix or that class will always tell or that deep down Susan is frigid is ony another frustrating imponderable. All that is left is what we already knew: Tony sagging in a stupor, his face framed in the bars of a bannister...
...size and numeration, or Thiebaud's wife posing as a bather with a double-dip strawberry ice-cream cone-juts forward like a sculptured relief from a general porcelain-white background. The whiteness helps isolate the image; the garish fluorescent lighting that commercialism loves bathes everything in its frigid glare. Thiebaud makes long, curling highlights out of polychromatic contours that do not exist outside...
...College freshman was beaten and hurled into the frigid Charles River by three assailants early yesterday morning...
...today is no longer giving in to desire, he thinks, but not giving in to it fully or successfully enough. While enjoyment of sex has increased for many, the "competitive compulsion to prove oneself an acceptable sexual machine" makes many others feel neurotically guilty, hence impotent or frigid. As a fellow analyst puts it bluntly: "We are always anticipating the 21-gun salute, and worried if it doesn't happen." This preoccupation with the frequency and technique of orgasm, says May, leads to a new kind of inverted Puritanism...
...squabble-the one with Communist China. But this was surely a topic of conversation when Khrushchev, bundled up in a fur hat and fur-trimmed coat, suddenly arrived for a visit with Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in a lavish hunting lodge 125 miles north of Warsaw-the same frigid site where Nikita met Gomulka a year ago for discussion of Communist problems and some hunting in the nearby woods...