Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times he made money-lots of money-writing for cheap magazines. "I had a perfect formula that worked while I stuck with it," he gleefully relates. "I used to go to the New York Library and read the cheap stories of 1900. Then I would rewrite them-adding more sex and putting automobiles in place of carriages. But I got bored with such stuff, and the formula failed...
Dean Pike's defense of birth control [Jan. 31] may be ingenious, but it is not Episcopal. The Church has always taken a somewhat uncompromising view on the matter of depriving others of life-which is the express purpose of birth control . . . Dean Pike refers to the sex act as "the sacrament of unity . . ." According to the Episcopal Church, a sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Grace, in a sense, is that which conforms us to God-the Creator. What grace can there be in an act from which every creative element...
...constructed a new. detailed, machinelike scheme of the mind. The steam that made the machine run was sexual energy or libido. In Freud's view, the unconscious was cluttered with emotional material, commonly thought of as forgotten but actually repressed because of a conflict between sex-powered drives and personal or social
...window-climbing and duellos." Woman, meanwhile, will go to greater lengths than ever to find a husband, "by that quiet and obstinate wish that works . . . magically, like the fixed eye of the snake." As men and women adopt more of the roles and interests traditionally attributed to the other sex, Jung thinks a new relationship between them is developing, based on equal partnership...
...best of them do not trade on their femininity, want to be judged as writers. Says Dominique Aubier, a perceptive lady critic and novelist: "The book arrives alone . . . but it's signed. The first name is enough. The effect is magic . . . The critics think more of the sex than of the text. But [literature] is not the privilege of one sex, and the liberty or joy of living not a right of birth. We are taking...