Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Democrats. "We can't afford," said one Christian Democratic politician, "to give the Communists an opportunity to attack us on moral grounds." Of all the senators, only dissident Socialist Pieraccini spoke out against abolition with any real vehemence. "[The bill] would turn all Italy into the sex jungle of Europe," he roared. "We are all senators here," Pieraccini persisted, in earthy phrases. "How many of us can say we have never been in a whorehouse? Only about...
...bedizens the Biblical story with all that $3,000,000 can buy: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, 600 extras and eye-crashing Technicolor, mixed by the lavish, lily-gilding hand of Cecil B. DeMille. The result may not be quite Old Testament, but it is Bible story shrewdly blended with sex, spectacle, and the merest suggestion of social comment to keep it abreast of current Hollywood trends. It is unlikely to tarnish Producer-Director DeMille's reputation for consistently making (as well as spending) more money on pictures than anybody else...
...Roosevelt will appear March 17 with Harold Taylor and Dr. Marynia Farnham to discuss the topic "Woman's Place in Today's Society." Taylor is president of Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Farnham is co-author of "Modern Woman--The Lost Sex...
Clutterbuck (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...
Females can serve a very useful purpose at Christmas time: several Harvard men have admitted that they would never buy pink shirts themselves, but would be overjoyed to get one from the fairer sex...