Word: serpent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then it was dubbed Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, not only because of its long, subtly curving fuselage and odd little canard wing, but because of its unenviable test record. On its first test last October, a brake locked on landing, sending up a spectacular shower of sparks and flame. Six subsequent tests were not much more impressive...
...wish he would keep still. His topic this time, as always, is "Sex in the College," and he offers such startling observations as: ". . . Sexual behavior in America is changing. . . Women certainly feel strong jealousy . . . Sexual appetite without specific physical arousal is not naturally as strong in women. . . The Serpent (In Eden) brought about the release of a force within man and woman which is beyond our comprehension and control...
Macaque samples some extraordinary vintages: nubile Numeril ("Fileted like a sole, boneless, squirming as a serpent"); Christina, the mountainous Scandinavian masseuse ("Like all scenery, she had to be viewed from a distance. Close by, the charm of the wood was lost in the trees of her passion"). I He generously introduces his conquests to wealthy acquaintances, causing some to snort that he is no better than a pimp, "a vulgarism which I repudiate. I regard myself as a creator, a man of sensitivity who feels that every jewel deserves its casket...
Before long, those who take the second view will not "sell out" by working with Establishment forces like the Democratic Party. They will work alone rather than "work into" a sick, hate-ridden White society. They will reject the serpent's advice of most Whites, reject a broad-based coalition, and manifest indifferences to any progress less than radical social upheaval. They will resist what they feel are King's efforts to support a new status...
Lawrence died in 1930, leaving generations of teen-agers to pore over his lyrical celebrations of sex (Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Plumed Serpent) as a mystical force that was its own imperative, displacing petty considerations of established custom, narrow morality or Christian ethic. For 26 years, until her own death in 1956, Frieda loyally supported the image of Lawrence as the ultimate male. But all the while she was writing an extensive fictionalized memoir. In this book, Professor E. W. Tedlock Jr. of the University of New Mexico has tried to patch together her fragmentary memoir into...