Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorized by Lawrence's widow, would never have been permitted by Lawrence himself. For the book, now made respectable by excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version is the same...
...When caged monkeys are angered or frightened they leap to sexual activity. But monkeys at large relieve their emotion by running away or by other physical activity. This suggests that in monkeys, and probably in humans, sex is not the primal urge which Freudians make it out to be.?Dr. Otto Leif Tinklepaugh, Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station, Orange Park...
...home of Sanchia Hanson, who had once been Mr. Yorke's mistress, the sexual situation is reversed. Sanchia's husband had been unmanned in the War. Though she loves him, she is physically infatuated with Adrian Lorimer. When her husband finds out, he commits suicide. Sally, more learned if no wiser, passes...
...think the public reports with respect to alleged proclivity of members of the Hawaiian race in sexual crime is substantiated by the facts. The Hawaiians have a different sexual standard than we have but I found no reason for believing that the result of such a different standard predisposes the Hawaiian to violent sex crime. . . . The amount of sex-crime seemed less than reported from many localities on the mainland...
...town. To advertise Glastonbury to the world at large, Mayor Geard stages a Passion Play, crossed with Arthurian Romance, for the town is near Stonehenge, and Arthur's sword and the Holy Grail make their appearances at times. What with mystic visions, and an unrivaled collection of sexual affairs, mostly clandestine or perverse, Novelist Powys allegorizes his conception of the "divine-diabolic soul of the First Cause." In the end Geard rescues Philip Crow from his fallen airplane, is drowned himself. In dithyrambic periods Author Powys sings his hero's praise: "He had never been a fastidious...