Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regnery's catalogue is weak on sex and popular novels, includes textbooks, classics reprints, and such unexpected offerings as The Natural History of a Yard and How to Free Yourself from Nervous Tension. Regnery risks his money on such deserving but esoteric authors as England's Wyndham Lewis and Swiss Philosopher Max Picard. A fat list of steadily selling Roman Catholic books helps him take losses on less popular works...
...vision, 2) that a dossier of possible miraculous occurrences was being assembled with a view toward the Pope's eventual canonization. Nevertheless, when the Pope left his summer home at Castel Gandolfo to return to Rome, crowds cried: "Viva il Papa santo." ¶ The church must put sex "in its proper and God-given place," said the Church of England's Moral Welfare Council. "It is the church's care that sex should be rightly used and guided . . . Much of the sexual irregularity of today may ... be caused neither by wickedness nor by ignorance...
Janus (by Carolyn Green) calls for somewhat faint praise but need not be damned by it. A pleasant enough, light sex farce that brings an American touch of wackiness to a French-style exercise in sin, it concerns the wife of a shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus...
...Sex Between the Warriors...
Mailer has also attempted to make this book a psychological study of the leaders of the movie industry, as well as one of Congressional investigator, but the whole emphasis of the book is frankly on sex, and these other themes never achieve the impact Maller intended. By putting what seems to be unnecessary stress on the sleeping habits of his characters, Mailer has lost an excellent opportunity to write a fine moral on the mores of the movie industry