Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charming Yet Tortuous. Stein's half-dozen "witches in modern dress" were all youthfully slender, lively of expression, some of them bucktoothed and "prancing" of gait. Although they were married and active sexually, they secretly dreaded the sex act and remained "psychically virgins." They had a "miniminy mouth"; that is, they were " 'mim,' prim, reticent, shy, affected." They tended to be frigid, attract weak, boyish men, hated kissing on the mouth (a witch's kiss was believed to draw out the soul). Often they had affairs, mainly with married men. They hated and hurt...
Because the hag type successfully uses sex as a weapon, they are "loathed by other women, who attribute all sorts of bad qualities to them." Moreover, "men loathe them . . . because they squash any talent the male partner may have." Yet "if they present themselves [as] helpless 'little girls.' men fall...
John O'Hara's talent as a novelist runs to stenographic reporting and, as any reader of his bestselling Ten North Frederick knows, he reports most expertly on Pennsylvania small towns whose very ordinary people all seem to lead extraordinary sex lives. O'Hara fans can now get, between hard covers, one of his minor magazine stories that proves that he can exercise his talent with his left hand. It also proves that he can suppress-at least for the space of 64 pages-his obsessive preoccupation with sex...
...books and stories of Italy's Alberto Moravia are battlegrounds, the troops men and women. No other living writer can make the battle of the sexes seem so grueling a fight to the finish. Bitter Honeymoon contains eight stories, and like most of Moravia's writing they raise an interesting question about the author: Does he really know a lot about women, or is he just terribly afraid of them? Probably the answer is: both. He knows them well enough to make male readers remember their own worst defeats, to convince women that he has no business exposing...
...goes. Sex is sickness, love is a torment. A lesser writer could not get away with such loaded dice, but Moravia is a first-rate craftsman and he can make the reader squirm along with his characters...