Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEATHER BOYS. Motorcycling, teen marriage and homosexuality complicate the life of a seriocomic British strumpet (Rita Tushingham) whose young husband prefers to spend all his evenings out with the boys...
Teaching Conception. How to help supposedly infertile couples conceive has always been among Dr. Masters' major concerns. As a result of his physiologic research, Dr. Masters has developed a gratifyingly successful method. Husband and wife must both agree to remain under treatment for at least a year. Dr. Masters and Psychologist Johnson start from the assumption that many couples "don't know where babies come from"-or at least don't know how they're made...
Johnson and Masters have to explain basic physiology. Often they have to reassure the husband that infertility does not mean impotence. They explain the best timing for intercourse in relation to ovulation and the best position to increase the likelihood of conception. It may take months of laboratory work to pinpoint and correct the cause of infertility. But in at least one case out of eight, Masters and Johnson report, learning about conception and the assurance that something is being done about their problem are enough to start a couple toward parenthood within three months...
Author Mackay, a 21-year-old British girl who shares a drab walk-up over a London launderette with her 23-year-old draftsman husband, an infant daughter, her mother, a dog and three sullen cats is the most precocious and prolific ornament in a new British literary clique that might be called the Sad Young Girls. Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad-and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it. Author Mackay's hero...
...tycoon. Undershaft should be civilized; Criss makes him vulgar. He should be easy, going; but in this version he thunders every other word as if the fires of hell had engulfed the theatres on Washington Street and were reaching eagerly for the Charles. He should play the reserved, dignified husband, not the long-lost lover who wraps his arms around his wife's waist and snatches at her hands...