Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fatal consequences have been successively blamed on cholesterol in one form or another, on increased fat in the diet, on animal fats and most recently on saturated fats, whether animal or vegetable (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956). They agreed that several factors-heredity, the anatomy of blood vessels, blood pressure, sex and obesity-are at least as important as dietary fat in predisposing to atherosclerosis. They were unanimous that obesity is a heavy villain in the picture, must be subdued by diet (including a reduction in the fat intake...
...book is also a hymn to Alexandria, a city that has "a strong flavor without having any real character," where sects as well as sex proliferate. Between bouts of love, Justine searches for something to believe in. She learns most from Balthazar, an initiate of the cabala, whose crypticisms ("Passionate love even for a man's own wife is also adultery") leave her in such a state that "at night you can hear her brain ticking like a cheap alarm-clock...
...aiming at a larger audience, possibly including those who read Playboy and Confidential. He may succeed, for he is an extraordinarily versatile writer. In The Works of Love, he sounded like Sherwood Anderson; The Huge Season rang with persistent echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this time he handles sex and violence in the manner of a more or less literate Mickey Spillane...
...stewards curse foully-yet only Pinfold seems to hear. Something, he thinks, is wrong with the ship's ventilating gear; by some acoustic or electrical freak, he hears conversations, snatches of music, and a dog snuffling in the night. Then he somehow listens to an obscene lecture on sex by some evangelical clergyman (though none appears on the passenger list). New voices make themselves heard. They become menacing and are well-informed on Pinfold's private affairs...
...Sex Newton. In Fresno, Calif., the Dried Fig Advisory Board ordered another 15,000 copies of its promotional pamphlet on learning that the public had snapped up the first 20,000 of The Love Life...