Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south, however, the Princeton undergraduate views Cambridge with longing, though for reasons quite apart from educational policy. The Princeton Charlies are distressed with what they term "creeping asceticism" on the campus. Citing the car-ban, which forbids undergraduates to keep automobiles, and the "No Sex After Seven" rule which hustles women guests from dormitories at dusk, the Princetonian notes a discomforting similarity between his existence and that of a monk. The graduate school versus college question will, of course, be settled in top-level conferences in the Ivy League. The "creeping asceticism" versus "Charlieism" problem is being discussed somewhat lower...
...referred to his clinic by the courts, Psychologist Canty found 100 certifiably insane. 850 feeble-minded and 1,000 who were former inmates of mental hospitals. Of the rest, he said, many are "psychoneurotic and emotionally unstable, impulsive and irresponsible, or daydreamers preoccupied by financial stress, marital discord or sex problems. [Others are] disturbed by inferiority feelings . . . because of small stature, poor clothing, lack of money, or driving a dilapidated...
...thrust forward as a result of lying for hours on the floor in front of the TV screen, chin in hand"); that, when the air conditioning breaks down anywhere, "New York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against this background of strange visions, Luigi Barzini Jr., a distinguished Italian journalist, has written a noteworthy book about a recent visit to the U.S. which is far above the usual off-the-French-cuff reporting. Even so, some of the book...
...female secondary sex characteristic. Reporter Barzini agrees that it is one of the sights of the U.S. "Many [women] sport long conic breasts jutting out like tents from blouses and pullovers . . . They carry them under their chins with the same indifference with which soldiers carry their packs on the back. Strange and unreal breasts they are ... Symbolic appendages ... a fiction...
Slaughter and sex are the ruling passions of Fan Fan The Tulip, a merry jibe at the more pretentious forms of historic motion picture. Louis XV wages lordly war across the screen, counting victory cheap if it costs but 10,000 lives. Villians are skewered on swords and hoist by powder kegs until the welkin rings. And amid the din of charging cavalry and ringing welkins, Lina Lollabridgia turns in the finest bit of provocative acting since Jean Harlow enticed Gable into lathering her back in Red Dust...