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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modest Italian sea-side resort of apparently little opportunity. They are shiftless and lusty, though they seldom show this latter quality to the camera. Their chief aim is thwarting their parent's attempts to civilize them by harnessing them with jobs. They just like to drink, laugh, dance, and sex...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Young and The Passionate | 1/8/1957 | See Source »

...sensation-loving papers cheerfully nursed the tautening nerves. Off the presses came a rash of interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, jewelers, bomb experts, handwriting experts, cops, scientists. Columnists discoursed learnedly on the psychopathic makeup of the man who so desperately wanted recognition, speculated on everything from his childhood to his sex drives (either weak or strong, depending on the columnist). Hearst's Journal-American thoughtfully provided a do-it-yourself spread on how to make a pipe-bomb; Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Sun gave an artist's rendering of the Bomber's face (details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Mad Bomber | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...intolerable, and disgraceful." All youngsters arrested for murder, rape or embezzlement in one year were Negroes. Teacher after teacher reported an increase in stealing, vandalism and obscenity. But something else disturbed the committee more: "One of the dangerous and deplorable developments in the District of Columbia schools is the sex attitude of the Negro . . . The fact that 13 little Negro girls-six years old and under-were treated for gonorrhea in 1955 is only a sample of the sex attitude . . . Illegitimate children born to 15-year-old girls increased 42% during the first year of integration. The Department of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Dike | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Kinsey report will go on-and on. Dr. Paul H. Gebhard, an anthropologist and the new executive director of Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research, announced last week that Founder Alfred C. Kinsey had left enough material, compiled over 18 years, to fill 20 volumes beyond the two already published. Expected next year: a book with the tentative and unconsciously funny title, Pregnancy and Its Outcome, which will devote itself to a study of pregnancies (planned and accidental), births (live and still), and abortions (spontaneous and induced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kinsey Continued | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...often whisper but seldom thunder from the silver screen. U.S. movie makers are bound by ground rules: the industry's own self-censorship code, first drafted in 1929. Last week the movie industry announced the code's first major overhaul in a quarter-century. Items: ¶J Sex. "Open-mouth kissing" has been banned. Childbirth may now be "treated within the careful limits of good taste." Abortion may be "suggested," but must be seriously "condemned." Seduction, rape, adultery and fornication "shall not be explicitly treated, nor . . . justified." Prostitutes and their managers are now restricted to a once-over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Code | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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