Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of the London Daily Mirror," lamented the staid London Economist, "is a sore reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, that prefers its information potted, pictorial, and spiced with sex and sensation." Nevertheless, just that style of journalism has made the Mirror the biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,432,700). Last week 40-year-old Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp ("If you don't like the Mirror, you don't like the human race") told the erratic success story of the paper in a book, Publish and Be Damned!, as irreverent and racy...
Rothermere quickly became outraged by the Mirror's sex and sensation, changed its style. He set the Mirror out on a dull and endless campaign against national "Squandermania," tried to capture readers with a series of giveaways and contests. "In a decade of brashness," says Historian Cudlipp, "the Mirror offered gentility." Rothermere also made some wrong guesses in politics, spoke kindly of Hitler, Mussolini, and even of Britain's home-grown Fascist Oswald Mosley. Gradually the paper lost readers, and in 1931 Rothermere finally stepped out, selling his shares on the open market. The Mirror was swiftly transformed...
...Polyp is the architect of Gothic reefs of coral; And it can change its sex at will and not be thought immoral. The Polyp can be male or not, whichever is its pleasure; Or even a hermaphrodite if it can find the leisure...
Before Bill Z lost control and ran out to the cemetery, he had spent hours locked in his room, studying religion, sex and science, and writing long discourses on philosophical problems. He was no easy patient to handle. He kept threatening to assault his psychiatrist. Mixed up about sex, he accused other patients of homosexual tendencies toward him (a reflection of his self-doubt) and made erotic advances to the nurses...
...affected so many lives that it is still considered a small but essential feature of French history. Sand's enemies declared that in her struggle to overcome it she devoured men like an insatiable ogress. She imposed her own frigidity, they said, as a punishment upon the other sex, never happy until she had reduced her lovers to a condition as hopeless...