Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since the community has not yet accepted sex as a normal thing and still regards this tonic in the light of 19th century values, it is better that a student should "act up" in his room rather than on the streets in an automobile he is not allowed to park...
...began in show business by combining sex and spectacle at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. His show was called the Flame Dance. A girl dressed in gauzy wings, representing a moth, danced closer and closer to a huge candle until she caught fire and ran off apparently naked. Says Todd: "I burned up four girls before I got it." It was a hit. After that there were other hits, other flops, but almost all had either sex or spectacle or both. He did The Hot Mikado ("The only show I ever produced that I liked"), Star and Garter...
...they have up their sleeves, which is a playwright's way of keeping going no less than a politician's. One such playwright's card is to have Breakages, .Ltd. suddenly amalgamate the U.S. and Britain. Another is to throw in a purely irrelevant interlude of sex-or of the lack of it, since when Shaw plays King, the royal mistress isn't really a mistress...
...chapter, where Fromm presents his thesis that loving is an art, in a very professional sense. According to Fromm, like other arts loving requires knowledge and efforts, discipline and concentration. Having presented this extremely Teutonic theory of love, Fromm proceeds to indulge his pet concerns: Freud's ideas about sex, and social criticism...
...justify his philosophy that loving requires conscious effort, Fromm revises Freud's insistence on the biological nature of the sex drive. For Fromm, sex becomes just another means whereby man tries to overcome his feeling of isolation. What happens is that Fromm's Psychology becomes a psychology of the conscious rather than of the unconscious. This accounts for the feeling we get after examining the thesis; that the ability to love requires more than discipline or knowledge, at least on the level of right and wrong...