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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentence: Babbittry triumphs over Christianity . . . We are not likely to be any different, as long as students only want to know, and schools teach, the shortest way to a buck. Idealism has replaced sex as the forbidden topic of conversation. J. H. SUMMERELL Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...oldest graduate ('78), surgeon, teacher and writer; of a heart attack; in Waltham, Mass. One of the first in New England to perform an appendectomy and Caesarean section, Worcester went back to Harvard as professor of hygiene (1925-35), authored many papers and books on nursing, sex hygiene and geriatrics, set up Waltham's hospital and nursing school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 10, 1951 | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...down three prerequisites for glamor. The first is that a star must not try too hard to woo the public, for the public reacts in the same way as a man who is chased too hard; indifferent Ava fulfills that condition. Prerequisite No. 2: a glamor girl must enjoy sex, rather than just pretend to enjoy it on the screen; Hollywood's enthusiastic consensus is that Ava Gardner fulfills that condition, too. Prerequisite No. 3: the glamor girl must have an inner authority and economy (i.e., poise). This quality Ava Gardner still lacks, but she may some day acquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...actually a, part of the solar system, with your own private orbit? . . . Do you feel the pull of gravity?" "No, sir, I don't . . . Now that you mention it, I don't feel the pull of dames, either . . . You suppose gravity has anything to do with sex? . . . I know I don't weigh anything, and when you don't weigh anything, you don't seem to want anything." -"The Morning of the Day They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ad Astra | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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