Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still digging away on the problem of U.S. sex habits, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey found his research momentarily stymied when U.S. customs men refused delivery on a package of books, photographs and etchings from Europe because they were "dirty and obscene." Kinsey, huffed Kinsey, is a scientific researcher, and the stuff was merely "scientific material...
Some of them discussed politics. Some discussed sex. "Roman Catholic Fascism" got him indicted in 1939, with three Yale professors and three football players testifying. He was released, but letters to President Roosevelt were termed violation of parole in 1941, and he was in jail again...
...like a perambulating Vegetable, patched with inconsequential Hair, looking out of two small jellies for the means Of life, balanced on folding bones, my sex...
...looks like a cross between a cantankerous professor and an absent-minded Roman emperor. At 55, with more than a quarter-century of serious writing behind him, he is best known to U.S. readers for Memoirs of Hecate County, a book of turgid intellectual short stories laced with enough sex to get them widely banned. Somerset Maugham, a more successful storywriter, whom Wilson calls a "half-trashy novelist . . . patronized by half-serious readers," considers Hecate County "so execrably bad you wonder whether it's worth reading what he has to say about other people's novels...
...also not true that Seagrave had forced native nurses to have sex relations with him. This impression had been due to a careless translator's rendering of the Burmese word chanade as "molest." The word actually means "discriminate." Apparently some nurses dislike Seagrave because of his autocratic ways...