Word: sexlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Flandrau's anecdotes deal with Satevepost's George Horace Lorimer, "the most insidiously seductive Lorelei of them all ... perched on a rock known as the Curtis Publishing Company overlooking the human tide that ebbs and flows along Independence Square in Philadelphia." Author Flandrau had written pure, sexless, nonalcoholic short stories, a good clean serial called The Diary of a Freshman, when Editor Lorimer wanted him to write the diary of a professor. Author Flandrau fled to Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic and gratifying" communications, persuaded him at least to take his charming fictional college boys along. Wearily...
...before yesterday's questionnaire once more reminded the authorities of Harvard that the undergraduate body is not sexless. Fearing lest the outside world should discover that Harvard students are neither eunuchs nor impotent, the authorities have raised their hands in horror, and according to reports, are prepared to bring them down with a bang...
...Advancement of Science turned on one hand to problems of Engineering (see p. 37). on the other to problems of Society, especially to problems of parents & children. As a corollary to his epochal discovery of the unconscious, Sigmund Freud found that children did not grow up to puberty as sexless neuters, but had sexuality from birth and responded to parental fondling. His principal hypothesis held that most dreams were explainable by suppressed sexual urges; so that when young men told him of dreams in which they saw their fathers dead and young girls reported similar dreams about their mothers...
...Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...
...complexities of their harsh and courtly government. In one of these he planned to insert a microphone strong enough to stand being lugged up the side of a mountain, delicate enough to record the clamor of tiny corridors, the swarming of young male and female ants, the uproar of sexless, wingless insects building subterranean castles for their queen...