Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About the only serious argument used against mixed classes is that they limit discussion by introducing an inhibiting sex consciousness. But for a generation which likes to consider itself as one that treats facts as facts, this is hardly an obstacle, especially when most marginal discussion consists of shady anecdotes, which are not essential to the course. Besides it's difficult to see how sex could be introduced into...
...Editor & Publisher statement flew in the face of the Guild constitution, which protects newsmen from being barred from Guild membership "by reasons of sex, race, or religious or political convictions." The Congress statement made a lot of good Guildsmen think that talkative Milt Murray was talking out of turn. It brought angry denials from Los Angeles and New York, and rebukes from five other strong locals. Said the Executive Board of the St. Louis local: "... A deliberate and calculated campaign to undermine the responsible position which the Guild now occupies...
...young people about their morals. Last week, back home at London's Holy Trinity Church, the Rev. Bryan Green shocked his congregation. "The morals of American students are deplorable," he said. "In the state universities at least 90% of the men students and 69% of the women have sex relations outside marriage. Intimacy between high-school students is very common...
Early program directors fishing about for something to the taste of their audiences soon found that sex, as always, did the trick. The first experiment was with Ann Corio, who cooed nice things about Harvard men and not so nice ones about Yale, into Shepard Hall microphones. So successful was the program that the next week found a Radcliffe freshman, a Wellesley sophomore, a vacationing Vassar junior, and a Boston debutante comparing notes on Harvard men for the benefit of listeners...
...Keith returned to the U.S. with few illusions about human nature: "In camp we had all of the sins. . . . Some people ate in corners, stuffing themselves secretly, while others starved. ... A common enemy did not bind us together, hunger and danger did not do so, persecution did not, our sex did not. One thing only bound us to comparative peace: the lesson that life was hideous if we surrendered to our hatreds; more livable only when we tried to be decent...