Word: portnoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portnoy's Complaint...
...question answered fastest by the Radcliffe team was one in which the moderator gave the first line of a review of a novel and asked for its author and title. The question was "laid out on a psychiatrist's couch;" the answer: Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth...
...PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth. Laid out on a psychiatrist's couch, a 33-year-old Jewish bachelor delivers a frenzied and funny monologue on sex and guilt reminiscent of scatological nightclub performances by the late Lenny Bruce...
...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth...
...arch humor, calling the book "a sort of Moby Dick of masturbation." Many newspapers and magazines fell back on tradition, using initials and dashes for familiar obscenities. Considering its usual soberness, the New York Times Book Review surprised its readers by permitting its reviewer to repeat verbatim some of Portnoy's sex-obsessed plaints...