Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uniform law be passed, effective throughout the nation, for dealing with solicitation of one sex by another...
...Wilhelm Reich, 59, once-famed follower of Sigmund Freud, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories, drew a sentence (suspended) of two years in prison from U.S. District Judge George C. Sweeney in Portland, Me. for violating an injunction by distributing "orgone energy accumulators," touted to heal burns, prevent cancer...
...essential messages, if truisms, are still true--the individual is confronted with the problem of sex, and in the face of prestige-values it is a running fight to retain integrity. I submit, however, that there is very little that the University or any other institution can do to help the individual with these problems. In this light, the existence of sex and prestige hardly offers sufficient basis for overthrowing the University. That there are no institutional solutions to these problems is indicated by the fact that i.e. makes no suggestion except the abolition of certain otherwise necessary institutions...
...more receptive audience. Many of its criticisms, wild as they are, contain a certain element of truth. The value of the lecture system is questionable. The departments of history, English, classics, and philosophy could well be more stimulating. (So, for that matter could Government.) Something, but not lack of sex, is wrong with the present tutorial system. Drama here is becoming a little too professional. Possibly, the CRIMSON is. (Readers have occasionally disagreed...
Like many of her sisters in what she bitterly refers to as the Second Sex, France's Simone de Beauvoir would rather talk than eat. Since she is the grande dame of French existentialism and all-round good friend of Jean-Paul Sartre who founded it, it goes without saying that there is a minimum of natter in her chatter. She can be wrongheaded, she can make ridiculous statements (America Day by Day; TIME, Dec. 14, 1953), but even her nonsense is the product of one of the sharpest and best-stocked minds in letters...