Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of possible hits: All Summer Long, by Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson, with John Kerr; Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Mendelssohn's music and Moira Shearer's dancing; Graham Greene's The Living Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack's new comedy, Festival, starring Vanessa Brown; G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan, with...
...campus after campus, Redding found that hatred of America is an unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus...
Some 800 of the museum's 44,000 huacos comprise the most frank and detailed record of sex customs ever left by any ancient people. They show, says the museum's Director Rafael Larco Hoyle, that among the Mochicas, "Men were men and their wives women." Only the unnatural seemed distasteful; on the huacos, the perverts shown are invariably depicted as sickly and cadaverous, while natural lovers are bronzed, handsome and healthy...
...Kinsey was fascinated by the collection. Said he: "I want to study it because here we have a complete, sober and realistic record of the sex life of a people uninhibited by the things that inhibit sex life among people in the U.S. The Mochicas were not conditioned in their sex ual habits and attitudes by Judaic and Christian custom, principle and prejudice, among other things, as we are. My research among these huacos should tell me more about what is natural in sex than my research so far among American men and women...
Kinsey carefully explained that he was forming no further conclusions about the mores and manners of the Mochicas. He pointed out to interested Peruvians that his main studies center on the sex life of modern North Americans, but he hopes that what he learns of pre-Inca habits may throw some added light on his contemporary research...