Word: libido
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British critics have just discovered "a major dramatist" who turns out to be that old literatus of the libido, David Herbert Lawrence...
Free-Floating Libido. In the four issues that have appeared to date, one article examines the phenomenon of moviemaking at U.C.L.A. and speculates that many of the students turn to movies because they have found the literary life too strenuous. "Hunched over a Movieola like some anchoritic lama at his prayer wheel," says the piece, "the moviemaker imagines the medium an ideal outlet for free-floating artiness or supererogatory libidinousness. There was in fact at least one instance in which a director became so enamored of his leading lady that he wrote a nude love scene into the script...
...Social Dancing", the article described a study of 16 Chicago dance halls. Cottle's "choreographic voyeurs," as Barnes called them, interviewed or observed more than 100 people in 30 sessions. While concluding that for all classes "about 60 years have been required for the focus of the dancer's libido to travel from her feet up through her knees and on to the pelvis where it presently resides," Cottle emphasized the difference in upper, middle and lower class approaches to dancing...
...Morton Cooper's novel should wane-although it probably won't. The author and his publisher have aimed it confidently at the bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened because Cerf and Sinatra...
Female hormones will also suppress a man's sperm production-the present pills do this-but they lower both libido and potency, along with more dangerous side effects. Vaccinating a woman against her husband's sperm, or vaccinating him against his own, has been investigated by Dr. Tyler's biologist brother Albert, with poor results...