Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most women today are not interested in abolishing sex. They do not want to compete with men, but prefer to love them, marry them, and have children...
...hero, Jimmy Porter (one of the few characters in modern drama whose names have a chance of becoming household words), spends much of his time delivering long monologues, with a ferocious, virile, hilarious brilliance unparallelled since God knows when. His themes can be grouped under two rubrics: Sex and Society in Modern England, and The Sorrows of Jimmy Porter; sociology, and self-pity. Within these constantly-overlapping categories he ranges widely and cogently. His comment on his well-bred in-laws is a pretty good capsule comment on the spirit that conquered India and beat the fuzzy-wuzzies: "They...
...Great nations have fallen and empires decayed because corruption became socially acceptable." So warned London's Daily Mail when the government-sponsored Wolfenden report on sex recommended going harder on prostitutes but making homosexual practice involving consenting adult males no longer a crime. In the 14 months since then, with the help of leaders in the opposition Labor Party who feel the same way, Home Secretary R. A. Butler has managed to avoid a parliamentary debate on the subject. Last week, after assuring himself that Laborites were not longing for action now either, Butler rose in the House...
...only 20% down), the Maternity Center Association bought up Marriage-Go-Round one night last week. It sold the tickets to members for $10 to $30, wound up with a profit of $16,000. Its major out-of-pocket cost: $210 for postage stamps. Why choose a broad sex comedy such as Marriage-Go-Round for the Maternity Center? Explains Director Hazel Corbin: "Because it turns out all right in the end. We always try to pick a play that is not disruptive of family life...
...worst-kept secrets in O'Hara's novels, and the pages of Terrace are crammed with knowing sinnuendo. But O'Hara seems to make a more serious effort in this novel than he did in either A Rage to Live or Ten North Frederick to subordinate sex to plot rather than plot to sex...