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...They are by no means as frigid as they have been made out, and their sex lives often become more satisfactory with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 5,940 Women | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...Thomas took his famed Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to Oxford's New Theater for the world premiere of Delius' 61-year-old opera, Irmelin. For four hours, the wistful music wended its peaceful way. The Princess Irmelin rejected her 100th suitor, explaining, in effect, that she was not frigid, just waiting for her dream man. She finally got him in the last scene, in the person of a swineherd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Missionary to the English | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...first big hit was in George Kelly's Craig's Wife. She had fought against taking the part of the frigid, too-neat Harriet Craig, because "I thought it would hurt me as a comedienne." It may have hurt her: six pictures later, she all but missed getting the rich, sharp-tongued comedy part of Sylvia Fowler in Clare Boothe's The Women. Director George Cukor doubted that Ros was comedienne enough for the role. She met the challenge with her usual determination by acting one scene from the script in six different comedy ways. Cukor gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...abandoned laundry in Wilmette Ill., scientists working for the U.S. Army are patiently defrosting the arctic's icies secrets. While comic-strip artists fight th next war in outer space, the men in Wilmette are learning to defend a closer battle line: the frigid wasteland that arcs across the top of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Artificial Arctic | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...first of a series of frigid censorship bills to come up in the Massachusetts State Legislature was recently defeated in Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Committee Kills Bill Asking Rigid Censorship | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

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