Word: protractedness
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Masturbation is another act that Simons thinks should be deplored in general but condoned under particular circumstances. He points out that the vast majority of youths in Western societies go through long periods of protracted sexual tension. With the welfare of man as his criterion, Simons suggests that it is...
In gist, Marat/Sade shows Sade's little company reenacting the death of the Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of the Royalist Charlotte Corday, before a stage audience of Charenton's director and his lady. But the murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who...
No previous medical phenomenon has ever quite matched the headlong U.S. rush to use the oral contraceptives now universally known as "the pills." An estimated 5,000,000 American women now take them; and, as a special advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said: "Never have so...
Biology says that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes...
Ringing Phone. From the other side, the rumbles were not peacelike. Sounding more bellicose than ever, Peking continued attacking the U.S. bombing, stopping just short of promising to send troops to Viet Nam. The Warsaw Pact countries rubber-stamped a resolution condemning the latest U.S. actions as "a new and...