Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aftermath of World War II spawned no identifiable Lost Generation, but it did bring a word for intellectuals to play with: existentialism. At first it appeared to be nothing but a new French fad-redolent of sex, sidewalk cafes, tight blue jeans and Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist...
Navy enlisted man, dredges up a Neanderthal boatswain's mate named Farragut Jones who speaks basic English, all of it four-letter unprintables. Marblehead copes with a case of "ultimate fraternization" or "love-by that I mean plain, raw, unadulterated sex" between a yeoman and a nurse. He sits out an enlisted men's "mutiny" (they want 14 bottles of beer once a week, rather than two a day) and a correspondent's revolt (he wants his sheets changed every day), but almost founders under the first news of the atomic bomb ("That Air Force propaganda mill...
...which Mencken got himself arrested in Boston for peddling an issue of the Mercury, banned for its story, by Herbert Asbury, of a southeast Missouri prostitute. Mencken was so afraid of losing the magazine's mailing privilege that he yanked the next issue's lead article, "Sex and the Co-Ed," and substituted "On Learning to Play the 'Cello...
...Soviet Union's plumpish (37-25-38) Cinemactress Irina (Othello) Skobtseva disclosed that feminine curves do not jibe with the serpentine Soviet party line. Said Irina: "We've never heard of sex appeal in Russia. It doesn't count and has nothing to do with art." Distending her ample bosom, she added: "In the Soviet Union, we do not pose in bathing costumes...
...Dollar a Dozen. Main topics of conversation at these stops, the inspectors found, were sex and drugs. There was so much loose talk about the drugs that they soon knew dozens of places to buy them, though many truck drivers emphatically refused to touch the stuff. Drivers were not the only customers: at a gas station in Charlotte, N.C. an inspector saw a teen-age boy plunk down a dollar bill for a bag of a dozen bennies (Benzedrine tablets), which wholesale in large quantities for about $2 a thousand...