Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrence's secret, says Murry, was that he was a sexual weakling. "Lawrence was not a physically passionate man; he was not more passionate than the common run of men, but less passionate." This was the key to all his writing, to his whole life. Murry intimates that Bertha Coutts. one of the least lovely characters in Lady Chatterlcy's Lover, was really Lawrence's own wife, Frieda von Richthofen, whom Lawrence at times hated but could not do without. Murry thinks Lawrence's horror of the War, his sense of persecution and consequent hegira to Italy, Australia, Mexico...
...revealed last fortnight by Bishop Albert Augustus David of Liverpool (TIME, March 16), a number of Anglican Bishops at last year's Lambeth Conference were privily agreed that the sexual relationship "even in marriage must be regarded as a regrettable necessity. . . . Except where children are desired, married persons should remain celibate after marriage, as before." In this recommendation of abstinence, three of the 28 members of the Federal Council's Committee on Marriage and the Home concurred: Mrs. Robert Elliott Speer, president of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations; Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, president...
...Frederick Hermann Knubel, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, suspected the motives of those who had brought Birth Control up for discussion. He connected it with a period "notorious for looseness in sexual morality...
...London last week, Anglican Bishop Albert Augustus David of Liverpool revealed that at last year's Lambeth Conference (TIME, July 14 & Aug. 25), numerous English Bishops had secretly agreed that "sexual relationship even in marriage must be regarded as a regrettable necessity. . . . Except where children are desired, married persons should remain celibate after marriage, as before...
...governess, managed to see her lover occasionally. Since both disapproved of marriage they planned to live together secretly; but, strong on fancies, they were short on facts. "We were still very ignorant of sex, and only knew in a vague way through the reading of poetry how the human sexual act was performed." Nature took its course, however, and when Jenny found she was pregnant they decided to get married. David was still at Oxford when the first baby was born...