Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department of Defense, Gulf Oil and Chemical Bank & Trust Co. of New York. They, in turn, have handed them out free. The stridently patriotic New York Daily News has-sold half' a million. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has a flag inscribed somewhat belligerently: "Our Flag; love it or leave." And Tiffanys offers a 14-carat lapel flag "for those who are still as proud of the American flag as we are." Price...
...make no claim to importance merely because I share common ancestry with the people of Africa," Mitchell said. "I am a part of the people who mingled our share of toil with the labors of immigrants from Europe. This is my country, it is the land that I love." To Roy Wilkins, 67, N.A.A.C.P. executive director, "our thing" meant a rebuttal to charges that the N.A.A.C.P.'s middle-class base is an overwhelming handicap in leading the black masses. "Dammit, we are middle-class," Wilkins said. "It's the middle class that has sparked every revolution. We came...
Many readers miss the florid circumlocutions of such erotic classics as Fanny Hill or My Secret Life. Today's pornographer handles a love scene as if he were dictating an engine-repair manual for high school dropouts. Not so the oldtimers, whose swooning maidens entered the amatorial bout with timorous displays of budded rotundities, swelling hillocks, portals of ecstasy and other geographical purlieus quite foreign to Gray's Anatomy. When it comes to a seduction scenario, few contemporary eroticists could match the subtlety of an anonymous 17th-century poet in reciting a pastoral love-in between a fair...
...about films that would have been cut or confiscated a few years ago. Far-out films now on show include The Libertine, in which a widow acts out a manual on errant sex; I, A Woman, II, which portrays fetishism, voyeurism and varied adultery; and Therese and Isabelle, a "love story" that treats of lesbianism and autoeroticism...
...eloquent condemnation of pornography, Literary Critic George Steiner objected: "Sexual relations are, or should be, one of the citadels of privacy, the nightplace where we must be allowed to gather the splintered, harried elements of our consciousness to some kind of inviolate order and repose." The totally explicit love scene, he suggests, is an intrusion upon the imagination and a synthetic substitute for reality...