Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nathanson, 49, was appointed to a professorship in 1951, and had been on the Medical faculty since 1939. He was noted for his research concerning cancer and sex hormones...
...found Up in Arms a blissful picture of what war might be. But ten years later, it is only a painful reminder of the low points in mass-produced wartime movies. The ingredients of this Kaye-ration are the West Coast conception of a soldier's delight: slapstick, music, sex, and patriotism. Luckily, the comedy is provided by the master of them all and Danny Kaye's git-gat-gittle and patter songs are as good now as when Sam Goldwyn first plucked him off Broadway...
Kluckhohn compared the Kinsey reports, a forthcoming study of British sexual behavior, and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, which presents a French attitude toward sex, as products of their respective national cultures. Kinsey's work, he said, is so clearly a manifestation of a basic tradition in American culture that it "parodies and caricatures" this tradition...
...anthropologist criticized the absence in Kinsey's books of any reference to love. "We don't need psychiatrists to tell us," he continued, "that an understanding of sex requires knowledge of its affectional as well as its physical side...
...their lot under the new dispensation. Grey-haired oldsters in kimonos and obis, bobbed-haired college girls in sweaters and skirts, aggressive feminists in slacks, gabbled enthusiastically and glared in frosty disdain at the few men present. They pointed with pride to some of the advances gained by their sex since the constitution: divorce, women's suffrage, the acceptance of women in an ever expanding range of jobs (as legislators, police officers, taxi drivers, even judges), increased coeducation, the spread of women's clubs, and a general increased freedom for women to speak their minds...