Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addressed by Allen Zoll. whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll, said the Journal-Bulletin, charged that the U.N. is "a device to permit the colored races to rule the white races [and that] UNESCO is an alien conspiracy to teach sex delinquency to American schoolchildren...
...Mudheads bounded in. The Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos had their turn...
Married. Henry Miller, 62, onetime Left Bank expatriate turned California recluse, whose sex-obsessed novels (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer), after being banned in the U.S., became avant-garde favorites in France; and Evelyn Byrd McClure, 29, Hollywood artist-actress; each for the third time; in Carmel Highlands, Calif...
...Moon .Is Blue (TIME, July 6) was denied the code seal because of its lighthearted approach to sex (the script contains such words as "virgin," "pregnant," "seduction," "mistress"). The picture is making a fine profit (see above), despite the fact that 1) local censorship groups have banned it from dozens of theaters around the U.S., and 2) it has been condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, a censoring body of greater rigidity than the code and infinitely greater power over the box office...
...previous novel, Shadows Move Among Them (TIME, Sept. 17, 1951), Guiana's Edgar Mittelholzer showed a rare hand at distilling weird comedy from sex, religion and primitive passion. But his new novel (his sixth) is neither weird nor comic. It shows what happens when the laws of the jungle are replaced by the codes of the suburbs, and it portrays with grimness the lives of colored people whose worship of ancestral ju-jus has changed into keeping up with the Joneses...