Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar courts. But Burke's court has a potent basic weapon: his reconciliation contract. The lengthy form document (36 pages) begins with an agreement to forgive past injuries, and covers a long list of subjects, including the right to privacy ("In such matters as personal mail"), in-laws, sex, late hours, gambling, grudges, bringing home the paycheck ("The parties agree to preserve and exhibit to one another all pay stubs representing any earnings earned by them"), charge accounts and the silent or doghouse treatment. Each unhappy husband and wife are invited to sign the contract, agreeing...
...doubt that it would help.) Beneath the surface, things were not quite so smooth. Her psychiatrist diagnosed Emma's case as hysteria; she was an immature personality who playacted in real life and shut out problems by simply pretending that they did not exist, especially in regard to sex...
...illnesses range from the commonest neuroses to severe psychoses. The decision as to whether a patient can be admitted and effectively treated is made not on the basis of a diagnostic label, but on whether he or she is too disturbed, and thus likely to disturb others. Though the sexes are mixed deliberately-Dr. Cameron wants the inside of the hospital to resemble the outside world as far as possible-sex causes no trouble. Only exception in the memory of the present staff: a schizophrenic prostitute who was homosexual during psychotic episodes and made advances to nurses, became heterosexual when...
...that dumb, brutish Studs himself might have written if he could write. But the U.S. stopped singing the hard-time blues, and time moved on, forgetting to leave James T. Farrell a forwarding address. French Girls Are Vicious, a book of short stories, is mainly steamed up about sex, or the lack of it, and might be subtitled "the pursuit of unhappiness...
Band of Angels, by Robert Penn Warren, one of the most critically overrated novels of the year, kept the Civil War pot boiling with blood, sex, sweat and crocodile tears...