Word: kinseys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local burghers rallied yesterday to attack Radcliffe prudery as controversy simmered over a letter in Thursday's Boston Herald. The letter, signed "Radcliffian '58," denounced a cartoon about the Kinsey report now showing at a downtown theatre as incitement to immorality and mockery of marital fidelity (See page...
...knowledge of a sort. The Gibbsville town assesser could not know more. O'Hara has a tape-recorder ear, a headwaiter's instinct for credit rating, and a preoccupation with different means of making love which, if supported by one of the great foundations, could put Dr. Kinsey right back among the gall wasps...
...juniors cultivating Harvard's air of indifference by nodding in class, we extend a glad word. A day of rare Thanksgiving to Nieman and Ford Fellows and other itinerant scholars, and a thought for the girls sitting sideways on the Memorial Church steps. To frustrated souls reading Kinsey in the stacks, to writers whose books have not been reviewed, to students late for lectures, and lecturers who know no applause, a day of relaxation from care. High feasting, too, to the students of Comparative Morphology and the Geologic History of Vascular Plants. To the wives of the Masters...
...André Gide). There is not much to understand in this narrative about the life of the West Coast's film fauna: the prose and the sex are as thick as ever. This seemed forgivable in The Naked and the Dead; the boys in a jungle combat platoon ("Kinsey's Army," as one British reviewer called it) were not supposed to talk like lady members of a book club. But in The Deer Park (the title is taken from a huge private sex resort maintained by Louis XV of France), the ladies talk just like the boys...
...theories of equality between the sexes; yet men apparently loved their own (and each other's) wives in those unenlightened times more than Dr. Kinsey concedes to the present. It was not a mealymouthed age; "nasty stinking breath" was the King's English of the second George for "halitosis." Above all, it was always tough-minded and could look at itself in the mirror. Hogarth made the mirror...