Word: nymphomaniacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three sinners are a coward, a lesbian, and a nymphomaniacal infanticide. It's a rich enough combination for any dramatist to work with, and Mr. Sartre, fortunately, does not exploit the sensational aspects of his characters. In fact, the three people are not in Hell for being a coward, a Lesbian, or a nymphomaniac...
...Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' drama about a genteel nymphomaniac, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critic's Circle Award in Manhattan two seasons ago. Last week, still thriving on Broadway, Streetcar threatened to become a parliamentary issue in London and a scandale in Paris...
...Johnny's shrewdness and Peter's stubbornness they break the monopoly and set up Magnum Pictures in Hollywood. Johnny serves in World War1 I and loses a leg, an injury which results in his psychic hardening, followed by his abandonment of sweet young Doris Kessler for a nymphomaniac actress, Dulcie Warren...
...trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...