Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cardinal v. Sex. A congress of sexperts was meeting in London simultaneously to discuss another kind of "emancipation." Incensed, Cardinal Bourne attacked this other congress...
Shaw v. Pope. Just as Irish Samuel O'Connell was an emancipator in his day, so Irish George Bernard Shaw poses as an emancipator nowadays. Not unaware of the Catholic Congress and of Catholic views on sex, he addressed them obliquely from the sexperts' congress. Excerpts...
...College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...
Masculinity-Femininity. Men are not entirely masculine, nor women entirely feminine, proclaimed the late Otto Weininger, brilliant German who blew out his brains at 24, just after appointment to Harvard's faculty. At Stanford University Lewis Madison Terman sought ways of measuring sex variations and found 908 points on which men and women differ according to their interests, trends, emotional reactions, preferences, aversions. One out of 100 men, he found, is more feminine than the average woman, one woman out of 100 more masculine than the average man. The sexes overlap in their traits. Living with a woman...
...only at second hand (through the Behaviorists), though he spoke in Russian and in highly technical terms on "A Brief Sketch of the Highest Nervous Activity," they applauded him tremendously before and after he spoke. He said that he felt justified in separating certain reflexes, as food, sex, defense, from the rest of nervous activity...