Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Alfred C. Kinsey's famed sex studies, threatened with financial anemia as support from the Rockefeller Foundation-National Research Council was running out, got a life-saving transfusion: the U.S. Public Health Service allotted $151,693 to Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research for a study of sex offenders entangled with...
...Georgia grand jury finally got around to investigating Koinonia Farm, the famed interracial community near Americus. After twelve years of peaceful existence, rumors began to fly with the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision that there was "sex mixing" at the farm and that it harbored Communist spies. The jury's 16-page report revived the old accusations, also charged that Koinonia was masquerading as a religious group to avoid payment of taxes and that the violence was largely perpetrated by the farm members themselves as a bid for sympathy. (Koinonia answered back with an eleven-page, point...
Hotel Paradiso, written 71 years ago by the once-famous and prolific Georges Feydeau with the collaboration of Maurice Desvallieres, is exceedingly standard and exceedingly French French farce. This means sex first, but not in the long run foremost. In such goings-on, slapstick and speed become a good deal more important than spice. The bed is only a prop; the actual objective is bedlam...
Your review of this truly fine motion picture is not only repulsive; it's insulting-not to Roman Catholics, but to all human beings. Contrary to your movie critic's beliefs and those of the late Dr. Freud, the universe does not revolve around sex...
...think, Sallie Bingham's Winter Term. It is best because it is the most story, the least game or puzzle. It is not an exceptional story. It is neither subtle nor wise nor delicate nor beautiful nor revealing. It is both entertaining (because it is full of sex), and moving (because it is full of people). The people are not real, but they are infuriating. By the end of the story you are likely to be in a rage--perhaps at Miss Bingham, possibly at yourself, probably at the characters. But something will have happened, and that, for me, distinguishes...