Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last July James M. Cain, specialist in fast-moving novels like "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," took time out from sex and murder and harnessed his vigorous style to a proposal for an American Authors' Authority. Published in the Screen Writer, monthly mouthpiece of the Screen Writers' Guild, the proposal has been the cause of red scares and herrings galore. A glance at Cain's opposition, which includes Westbrook Pegler, the Chicago Tribune, and a newly formed group of writers headed by the oldest of the old guard, John Erskine and Louis Bromfield, indicates a weak base...
...Here are no new ideas, no thought, no stimulation--unless concurrent mistresses is your idea of a good time. Dear Noel's world, artfully constructed of gold cloth and pastel pasteboard, contains no people, at least not the kind that inhabit the world. Rather does this craftsman of the sex comedy take into his delicate hands again the familiar set of dolls and sends them whirling on the polished floor, kidding, insulting, wallowing in the tart and tasty intoxication of flip sophisms and casual sex play. The effect in startlingly funny...
Principally, sex and food. But the Army Quartermaster Corps, which has studied mosquitoes intimately in hopes of crossing soldiers off the mosquito menu, has discovered that the insects are complex psychologically, and react to a long list of stimuli. Last week it released its findings...
...males become sex-conscious five hours after emerging from their pupal cases. But Anopheles males are moody. Sometimes the sweetest hum will not excite them. With antennae removed, both Aedes and Anopheles males are nonresponsive. If a female beats her wings at the wrong rate, she hums the wrong pitch, never acquires a mate...
...Next to sex, the most profitable theme for publishers of recent American novels has been...