Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woman's Machinery. Change of life means that a woman is through with her childbearing days, but not necessarily her sexual life. In fact, says Dr. Lincoln, with the fear of pregnancy removed, many women relax completely and really enjoy sex for the first time in their lives...
Michael Todd's Peep Show is one of those torrid salutes to sex that are considered especially well suited to hot weather. Naturally, it tends to differ from anyone else's peep show, for in recent years nobody has equaled Producer Mike Todd at making burlesque resplendent, respectable and remunerative on Broadway. Of legs and the girl he sings, believing that for many a customer the lure of the female form outranks anything devisable by the human brain. Nonetheless, in show business the human brain can be a help; and Peep Show needs a terrible lot of helping...
...Mother to cover up that hole in the wallpaper, Babbitt Junior would, of course, use a Picasso." Where the older Babbitt hashed over baseball and real-estate prices at his Booster Club luncheons, the new Babbitt talks knowingly (" 'knowing' is the word") about The New Yorker, sex and existentialism in an "adequate little French restaurant in the East Fifties." Where the old Babbitt merely hated art, the new Babbitt "hugs it to death...
...traditions by pandering to the public's lowest tastes on its news pages. Last week the Saturday Review of Literature, a high-minded magazine with a lower circulation (97,866), published a debate between Wechsler and Editorial Writer August Heckscher of the New York Herald Tribune. Subject: Is sex necessary to sell a liberal newspaper...
...argued Heckscher. The Post's old friends "are not actually averse to sex. [But they dislike] having their sex dished up as bait. The only thing worse than an obviously bad paper is a paper . . . which is obviously good and makes ugly sounds as a matter of deliberate policy. . ." He thought that the Post had almost run the gamut of sex and sensation, predicted that it would soon inspire "a feeling not only of boredom but of distaste and revulsion." Concluded Heckscher: "A newspaper is neither read nor edited in watertight compartments. A liberal newspaper must be liberal...