Word: harems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was once a sultan with a harem of jealous wives. Being a wise man, the sultan secretly gave to each wife a blue bead. When they sought proof of his affection, he would say, "I love the one who has the blue bead." Thus he was able to live happily ever after...
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Istanbul provides an exotic backdrop for the harem-scare-'em adventures of James Bond, alias 007, alias Sean Connery. A sly spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction...
Critics cavil that not enough countries are represented at the New York World's Fair. Such critics, said Robert Moses, 75, offhandedly plucking a barb from the bulrushes, wonder why there is no exhibit from such as "the Sultan of Kuwait with his bottomless oil, Cadillacs, harems, heat, sand flies and camel dung." That kind of joke is as old as Moses, but tiny Kuwait was not amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure...
...Sexless Harem. Then one unfortunate day, Owen has an impulse toward candor and tells his mistress he has a wife and his wife he has a mistress. Neither seems particularly surprised, for, as Sybil puts it, Owen has always been "a bit of a liar." Sybil goes dutifully up to London for the great confrontation scene. Finding Alex feverishly ill, she hustles the girl down to Oxfordshire to convalesce under Owen's roof. Nights, wife and mistress sit contentedly together doing jigsaw puzzles; occasionally they dissolve into helpless laughter at the thought of Owen's predicament. The poor...
Social Stress. Anxious to learn how overcrowding does work, Calhoun put rats in four interconnected pens six feet square. Two of the pens were quickly pre-empted by boss male rats that kept harems of females and allowed no other males to mate with them. The harem females made proper nests, bore healthy young and raised them successfully. But in the other two pens, where no single males took charge, social stress was rampant. Some of the males gave the females no rest. Others turned homosexual or hid in corners. The females stopped making proper nests, and their young, born...