Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many forget that Mills College offers many programs of study that may not be classified as "home arts" [Jan. 27]. Dr. Lynn T. White Jr. has been instrumental in instilling in Mills women a pride in their sex that extends not only into the kitchen but also into every realm of a woman's life...
...husband, but Groucho cleared it up fast: "My suggestion is that she get rid of her husband." He dubbed Professor Evans "Bergie." After the guest expert, in the manner of his own show, kept asking whether letter writers were "married or single." Brown challenged him on his "obsession" with sex. Retorted Groucho: "It's not an obsession; it's a talent." As Evans bravely signed off by inviting viewers to "send us anything further to confuse us, if you can," Groucho had the last interruption: "Oh, I haven't done well enough...
...page to the screen, the odor is cloying. On her deathbed the heroine pleads piteously, "You won't do our things with another girl, will you?" But she hastens to add, in the tone of a flapper who would not be caught dead with a conventional notion about sex, "I want you to have girls, though." He sobs, and she promises, with a ghastly smile, "I'll come and stay with you nights." She dies murmuring Hemingway's definition of death: "It's just a dirty trick...
...that the proper study of British fiction is class. One of the best stories in this collection is set in Venice and is strongly reminiscent of theVenetian episode in Lady Chatterley's Lover. Like D. H. Lawrence, Sansom plays his defunctive music undersea on the G string of sex, but class composes the melody. In this case, a gondolier rashly falls in love with a beautiful English girl whose snobbery is so intense that it simply does not occur to her that a mere gondolier could aspire to be her lover. When the uninformed Venetian finally begins to understand...
Good Name at Last. Empress Eugenie so detested sex ("disgusting," she said) that the Emperor reportedly continued for some time to find reconciliation upon the broad fields of Beauregard. But as time passed, the "countess" (her title was never confirmed) devoted more and more of her life to good works, flowers and tapestry. For convenience sake she married an Englishman named Trelawny, thus acquiring at last a good name, but still, out of old habit, using phony ones. She died in 1865-and her tombstone carries incorrect dates...