Word: maleness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unlike Kozol, however, he regards it as but one of many expressions available to his characters. While the whole of his story, "The Sign of the Mermaid," focusses on a well-staged orgy (similar to Kozol's in featuring a middle-aged woman's lust for a youthful male), still the orgy is seen in a perspective this side of madness...
...Bath, on which he serves as medical officer. Bearded, pipe-smoking Dr. Dillon explained that he was a victim of hypospadias, that he had sensed in his teens he was different from other girls, and that his voice "became deeper than a female's but higher than a male's" when he was 20. From 1945 to 1949 he underwent a series of operations to make him a more complete male. In 1951 Dr. Dillon published "A Study of Endocrinology and Ethics," a medical account of his own case, although he did not identify himself as the patient...
Masculine Males. What perhaps warmed U.S. audiences most was the robust, open humor and friendliness, the sunny exuberance that blew through the whole performance. The full-bodied Russian girls were ingenuously sensuous without being sensual. The men-possibly the most masculine male dancers ever to kick a leg in Manhattan-performed their muscle-twisting feats witha pure animal joy of movement rarely seen on the stage. Wrote Critic Harold Clurman: "The qualities these dancers possess are those we [Americans] like to claim as our own when we feel ourselves to be at our best...
...Hate-Autos Year." If prices are part of Detroit's trouble, they are far from all of it. For a nation on wheels, the plight of the auto industry is a matter of intense popular concern. Many a U.S. male prizes his auto above all other possessions-sometimes even his wife. Since there are 80 million drivers, there are 80 million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right...
...second to bear the Marlborough title was no duke but a duchess. In the absence of a male heir to the first duke-whose only son died of smallpox in 1703-an act of Parliament permitted the dukedom to pass in the female line. His daughter Henrietta (1681-1733) succeeded him as second Duchess, became a great and good friend of Playwright William Congreve...