Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tragic experience. Each time we read of the abduction and death of a child under similar circumstances, it seems that the moral flow of our present age cancels out the good that has been produced by our society. Mr. de Caussin places the blame correctly on the emphasis on sex with which we nurture our people...
...work up to a total running time of two and a quarter hours. He had Robert Brustein compose and, in the persona of Moliere, deliver a prologue and epilogue; the prologue was appropriate enough, but the epilogue was ineffectual and ill-advisd. He furthermore incorporated, by changing the sex or name of some of the characters, scenes from Les fourberies de Scapin, which Moliere penned right after finishing the present work--specifically, the portions dealing with the extortion of ransom money for a phony kidnapping. In principle I do not approve of the directorial use of scissors and paste...
...Sex." wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, has "indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages." But sex and obscenity, he pointed out, are not synonymous-and there has been plenty of disagreement about when the subject of absorbing interest becomes one of prurient*interest. It was in a first major attempt to settle that issue that the Supreme Court, in a split decision, last week upheld U.S. and California criminal obscenity statutes...
...stop publication of the bust measurements of movie stars? Perhaps we should stop using pictures of women at all. The idea that we can purge the American people by censorship is ridiculous. The favorite pastime of the American people is dirty jokes. The American people are more preoccupied with sex and more frightened of it than any others. We're just an obscene people." How does Wylie himself react to the national pastime? Yawned the savant of scatology: "I haven't heard a new dirty joke since I was twelve...
Much modern fiction is literature of escape-from class, race, creed, country, or even the sex in which the writer was born. The disadvantage of the escapee is that he is obliged to change his clothes to prevent detection. Novelist Phyllis Bentley has chosen to wear the sober broadcloth of her native Yorkshire, to remain and write about what she knows-the Yorkshire Tyke (English slang for York-shireman). In 19 books during the past 35 years she has "celebrated her chosen slab of earth-Yorkshire's West Riding...