Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society permits intimate and unsupervised relationships between unmarried [youth] of both sexes," during which "they are expected to display a reserve under excitation which their elders would probably be incapable of exercising." The "sex-tease" affects married couples as well, leading them "to regard each other as sexual objects...
...Richard. Pamela Brown as the king's mistress, a role tellingly interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills the court with just the kind of sexual music Shakespeare meant when he spoke of "the lascivious pleasing of a lute...
...Walt Whitman and Camden bridge dispute [Feb. 6]: in dedicating the bridge to Walt Whitman, the officials concerned are honoring Whitman as a poet, not just Whitman the man. I am a Catholic and like Whitman, whatever his sexual leanings; he was a better poet than Joyce Kilmer any day. They can take Trees and throw it away and/or build their own bridge. They just don't understand Whitman or his poetry. As for the man, they might remember that during the Civil War he did as much as any man to visit, comfort and help the sick...
...estimates, there will be from 34% to 63% more people on earth than in 1950. To some this suggests the need for birth control. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that any mechanical interference with the consequences of sexual intercourse is a mortal sin. But The Netherlands' Catholic Institute for Social-Ecclesiastical Research (moving next month to Geneva) has launched a $5,000 prize contest to find new ways of controlling population...
...went on to say that the most urgent problem facing college students is the question of how to contain his sexual drives in a manner socially and personally satisfactory. He found that in college communities it was the girls who set the standards of sexual behavior...