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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing a novel about them entitled Hollywood Be Thy Name). Others seem to be just a piece-of-mind psychologizing. Last year she went on the air with a Los Angeles TV show called Ad Lib. To the fearful joy of sponsors, Pamela lambasted monogamy as "unnatural," defended premarital sex relations because "it's absurd to stop just when you're most interested," and called for legalization of homosexuality because "it's nobody's business what two adult males do with their sex life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Talker | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...have been under psychoanalysis. ¶ At least on their own estimate, they are a restrained lot; 140 drink more than they did in college (Scotch is preferred to bourbon or gin), but 137 drink less, and 27 sit stoutly on the wagon. Card playing is preferred to sex as a favorite indoor sport (181 to 47), with squash (29) and table tennis (12) not too far behind. Three hardy Princetonians say they still play football, and one ropes calves for fun, but 131 like golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Class of '49 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Such confinement and automation of animals is possible and profitable because of a raft of new chemical discoveries. In 1948 Purdue's Dr. Andrews discovered how to put tiny pellets of stilbestrol, a synthetic female sex hormone, under the skins of cattle and sheep to make them gain weight 15% faster. Today 80% of the nation's beef cattle get stilbestrol. This helps farmers produce an estimated billion pounds more meat than they could have got for the same amount of feed without stilbestrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...must do what we can with the third." Urbane Satirist Menen has siphoned laughter out of stuffy pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches') and sacred Hindu myths (The Ramayana). Rarely has his comic touch been lighter or more impolite than in this current spoof on science and sex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light & Impolite | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...they could not believe ii the alcoholic and amatory prowess of th book's hero as he seduces a young heiress Commented Novelist François Mauriac "It displeases me to play the role of virtuous father. But I ask this question Why should the history of the sex life c this young lady be of particular interest . . .one is conformist today as never before. Apart from sex, no salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Salvation | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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