Word: libidos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sallow-cheeked Agustin Lara is the most artful fashioner of the libido-loaded lyrics of Mexico's popular songs. He is also Mexico's most prolific popular composer. Since his first success with Mujer (1927), a song dedicated to all women, Lara has averaged 15 songs a year, most of them hits...
...Infinite Variety. The country exhibited no discernible unrest, no passion for plunging toward new ideas or new philosophies. Literature leaned heavily on the historical novel which, by a curious transformation, seemed to provide the only public expression of the libido. Historical novels were most noteworthy for their dust jackets, all of which seemed to boast a red-lipped siren with a low-cut dress and an incredibly pneumatic bust. U.S. intellectuals, who had once ranged from the Paris Left Bank to Communism's left wing, had come home to roost. It was a little saddening to the more daring...
Ernest Hemingway, on the other hand, had one of the "most provocative faces in the world," declared the Artists League of America. Other faces that moved the league to exclamations of wonder: Hirohito's ("provokes pity") and Cinemactress Ava Gardner's ("provokes libido"). Hemingway's face, said the artists, "provokes annoyance...
Enjoyment of Living, which the jacket calls "the candid story of an exciting life," covers only his first 33 years (he is now 64). The excitement is largely buried under Eastman's incessant self:analysis (of his character, his personality, his libido), which makes up a good half of the book. The candor will strike many readers as needless bad taste...
...neurotic personality." Among the contributions were poems by Kenneth (Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer) Patchen and Conductor Leonard Bernstein (who called his poem Life Is Juicy). The lead article (by Londoner Rudolph Friedmann) began: "Getting married is the best way of taking regular exercise. In order to encourage his libido the wife lets the husband chase her around...