Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline S. F. Porter, and did not let her affirm her sex until 1942, when S. F. was changed to Sylvia...
...furnishes a good transition to studies of skeletons and dermal structure, for the evidence of these is founds in rocks. The ten main phyla are studied, with special emphasis on the chordates, and particular attention to the mammals. A study of the reproductive process in mammals provides an effective sex education...
...education trumpeted by the educator quoted above--"life-adjustment." Almost every high school in the nation requires its students to take at least two semesters of diluted kindergarten psychology usually called something like "senior problems." The textbooks, veiled in the blushing sociological jargon of the thirties, hint at sex and domestic problems long since resolved with a good deal more clarity in schoolyards and on lavatory walls. If the high school student hadn't conquered them by his senior year, he was already an irrevocable neurotic...
...parents be ashamed of the process through which they received the children of whom they are so proud? The subject of sex is too important to be ignored by parents, schools and churches. Is it not far better to receive intelligent instruction on the topic? No information-or worse, unreliable information-can lead only to unhappiness and misfortune for myself and other teenagers...
...NORTHERN LIGHT, by A. J. Cronin (308 pp.; Little, Brown: $4), finds Novelist Cronin (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) crusading again and moralizing again, but the muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind...