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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play which the Radcliffe Idlers successfully--revived last night, is what Shaw has called one of his disquisitory plays. As the title indicates, the subject the Master has taken under scrutiny is the modern institution of marriage; but, as is customary with Shaw, a great many other institutions--divorce, sex, the church, snobbery, to name a few--are also pulled gently but firmly apart. And, as is also usual with Shaw, he offers no solution or substitute but ends by fitting the broken pieces back together again. Shaw is not an anarchist; he has deftly pointed out the flaws...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Getting Married | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

Various student organizations offered to help the State Department clean house, and the Harvard National Student Association delegation took on a batch of about 5000 of the letters, coding them by sex, age and interests of sonders; during the process some of the sorters abstracted many of the better letters to follow up on their...

Author: By Paul. W. Mandel, | Title: German Letters Gripe to Students about War Trials, Russians, Government, Music | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...pointed straight at the title, The Lawton Story, "A Picture That Does Something to Your Soul." As the film went into release last week, the two live-wire Ohio promoters who made it were confident that religion would serve them as well at the box office as sex has done since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Soul | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Sex has done right well by Producers Kroger Babb and J. S. Jossey. Their only other movie, a feature-length sex education film called Mom and Dad, has quietly taken in $8,000,000 from 20 million moviegoers. For the last four years, it has been strenuously peddled in 42 states and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Soul | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help him hawk pamphlets on sex. Sales to date, at $1 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Soul | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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