Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Can an America of cocktails, cigarets, wisecracks and sex-so well typified by your magazine and its advertisements-stop the Hitler military machine...
...A.E.F., which fought very creditably in World War I, liked cocktails, cigarets, wisecracks and sex...
...doctors had told her she was mistaken but she thought they were "in league" against her. Dr. Deane had a Wassermann test made by the Board of Health. When the test came out negative, he suspected his patient was suffering from syphilophobia-a symptom often caused by fear of sex. Thinking he could cure the woman more easily if he humored her, Dr. Deane changed the Board of Health report to "positive." Then he prescribed a red tonic, gave her some harmless injections for her nerves...
...THESE BONES LIVE-Edward Dahlberg-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A violent blowtorch of poetic anarchy, turned on U.S. literature and such related subjects as the State, materialism, sex, war, tradition, human docility. At its worst it verges on literary hysteria; at its best it has rare eloquence, insight and daring. The book will either bore or infuriate any average law-abider...
...destiny of most was determined by the hypnotic influence of an inspired-or maniacal-leader, and changed with his death. 4) Not one dared to meet sexual problems pointblank; even bold Oneida's "complex marriage" outlawed pleasure. 5) With few, ephemeral exceptions, Utopians feared individualists as they feared sex...