Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wedding) Waters recalled, for the Ladies Home Journal, some of her own life story which in the Negro slums of Chester, Pa.: "I never was a child. . . I was born out of wedlock. . . By the time I was seven, I knew all there was to know about sex and could outcurse any steveore. . .I knew that I was a bastard and what that meant. I've never in my whole life minded being a bastard. I've always found it can work both ways. If I wanted pity, I got it because I was illegitimate. And when...
...standard formula for making a historical novel sell merrily nowadays is: violence plus sex equals success. Finnish Novelist Mika Waltari has his own way of handling the formula: double the quantities, double the result. Last year, U.S. readers got their first taste of the treatment in The Egyptian, a story of how a local fellah made good with the ladies in the 14th Century B.C. It sold more than 500,000 copies, held first place on bestseller lists for over three months, and still ranks in the top dozen...
...bleak, green-walled hall of California's San Quentin Prison one day last week, an odd sort of jury-two murderers, one sex offender, assorted thieves and forgers-solemnly took their places at a table before an audience of fellow convicts. The case before them was an old one: Athens v. Socrates. The evidence: Plato's Apology, in which Socrates defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth of the city, and the Crito, in which the old prisoner refuses a chance to escape...
Correspondent Higgins travels light, usually carries only a typewriter and a musette bag of toilet gear, eats & sleeps where she can (often on the ground), insists on no billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing...
After Sheldon left, the College reverted to the sex-less Sillhouetteographs, and has hewn to the straight and narrow ever since...