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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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actresses ("all look alike . . . wiggling their rear ends"), television ("worse than the movies"), movies ("brutality, lust, sex and suffering"), and Americans in general ("peasant stock"). With that off his mind, Brando got back into character: "Actually, I don't give a damn." Jaime Ortiz Patino, 25, nephew of Bolivia's gold-laden tin magnate, reported to Roman police that he is minus one bride. The-vanished one: Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patino, 23, Manhattan's "most beautiful debutante" of 1948, divorced last November by Britain's former Amateur Golf Champion Robert Sweeny, who named fast-moving Dominican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

FIRST profession I ever thought of entering [at 15] was ... the Church. [Later] I wanted to be a doctor [only] because I needed a doctor's education . . . Otherwise I could never have gained a confident grasp of the problem of sex ... I should have dropped and left no mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: WHY BE A DOCTOR | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...revelers saw their offspring divided up into three groups indiscriminate of sex and given over to counsellors. Thus relieved, parents whirled off to shed the gloom of their graduation-birth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 Arrives, Inhibitions Disappear As Five Free Days of Reunion Begin | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...noisy bundle of energy as Paris' No. 1 actionalist (i.e., "one who does things rather than talking about them"), stalked majestically into Los Angeles and disclosed that he has attained an age (79) where he firmly believes Americans both do and talk too much about their "obsession with sex." And he knows who has debauched them, too. Americans are all hopped up mostly because they are "sexualized over the rotten beliefs of Sigmund Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...even good writing. Thus a new category was created-well below the occasional Henry Jamesian thrillers turned out by such serious writers as Marghanita Laski (see below], but several steps above the Mickey Spillane gutter. A batch of new novels demonstrates the current suspense range from simple, old-fashioned sex fiends to complex, introverted drawing-room villains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suspense | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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