Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish politicians, sex has long been an unnerving problem. Ten years ago, even Spain's rugged, hardheaded Anarchists found time at a moment of acute national crisis to grapple with the question of public nudity. Their last national convention, meeting in Saragossa's bull ring a few days before Franco's rebellion flared, hotly debated the question: in any Spanish village, should a majority favoring nudism be empowered to strip a minority that clung to their shirts and skirts? An appeal to the rights of individuals to choose for themselves was overruled. The triumphant argument: no community...
...expanding community sense makes Ten receptive to ideas of social justice, group welfare, loyalty. Like Five, Ten is in good equilibrium. But unlike Five, Ten is no longer neuter. There is not much companionship between boys and girls of this age. Anticipating adolescence, they are acutely conscious of sex differences, keep apart by intermittent feuds and separatist truces...
...shift his scene from Paris to Warsaw, London to Budapest, from the back room, of a leather-goods shop to the cockpit of a speeding plane. And as if the wonders of the Air Age were not enough, Author Romains has a fine eye for the contemporary intimacy of sex and politics...
While this may leave the author of "Forever Amber," and other writers who sell sex by the ream, out in the cold, the complete works of Mr. Hemingway and other novelists are shelved in Widener, Metealf explained...
...male's sperm contains X chromosomes which produce female offspring, and half contains Y chromosomes, producing males. Whether the offspring is male or female is determined by which kind of sperm unites with a female's egg. If scientists could separate the male-and female-producing spem, sex control would be easy...