Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hypochondria. Because of the delicacy of his vocal organ, the tenor is forced to baby his voice. Many carry this to extremes, even denying themselves sex for 48 hours before a performance because it may coarsen their tone. (One contemporary tenor has refined this after learning by a process of trial and error that his voice is at its peak exactly three days after sexual intercourse.) Despite all his precautions, the tenor tends to feel himself hoarse as a wolf at curtain time, and often decides he has a cold. If he can be forced onto the stage, his natural...
...Kinsey litmus would probably show that the average Frenchman is no naughtier than most people, but French novelists have made his little delinquencies into one of the most readable of literary exports. To be sure, there are the existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare...
...Washington onetime Price Administrator Paul A. Porter, 51, now a capital lawyer and being jettisoned by his wife (since 1930), confirmed rumors that he is entranced with thrice-wed (to All-America Footballer Robert Herwig, Bandleader Artie Shaw, Attorney Arnold Krakower) Novelist Kathleen Winsor, 37, best remembered for her sex-clogged 1944 opus about naughty 17th century England, Forever Amber. Forever contending that she herself is no Amber, Kathleen allowed that she will marry Porter in May. Said Author Winsor: "I plan to really keep house when we settle down . . . I've been taking cooking lessons for a year...
...misfits complain about other people's houses having this or that, but the resouceful type knows otherwise--he can get along anyway. Take sex, for instance. Adams House, of course. A beehive with trapdoors. The Gettysburg of the war of the sexes. The Casbah. Well, if you can't dress your girl in khakis and a raincoat, or climb out a street floor window, then you don't deserve even the concessions we've been able to get for you (necking from four until seven on weekdays, until eight on Friday and Sundays, and until eleven on Saturday, except when...
...places where U.S. culture rubs hardest against the Catholic family, says Father Thomas, are these: CJ Sex. "What has happened is the toleration of every form of 'sex-tease' in a society which is incapable of developing uniform norms." Children are not only subjected to constant reminder of the physical aspect of sex, but "society permits intimate and unsupervised relationships between unmarried [youth] of both sexes," during which "they are expected to display a reserve under excitation which their elders would probably be incapable of exercising." The "sex-tease" affects married couples as well, leading them "to regard...