Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Hair made nudes a commercial fad, one sexual taboo after another has been shattered. The logical end was Che!, which promised copulation onstage. It does not happen. The actors fake it. The uninhibited cast has reached the pitch of passion in rehearsals, but performances before an audience obviously constrict the actors. Even so, what does happen would fill an animated sex manual. Conjecture one hour and forty minutes during which each orifice and organ of the male and female body is employed in all possible combinations...
...Crisis in Socialism (1939) and Marxism: Is It Science? (1940) are still regarded as among the most damning analyses of Communism. He also proved himself a considerable poet and turned out an autobiography, about which one critic wrote: "It has the egalitarian earnestness of a Tom Paine, the lighthearted sexual adventures of a Casanova, the self-preoccupation of a Cellini...
...Universals. Gagnon and Simon developed their Victorian-sounding conclusions amid the welter of sexual data still accumulating at the Kinsey Institute, where they worked together for three years. Gagnon is now with the sociology department at the Stony Brook, L.I., campus of the State University of New York; Simon is program director in sociology and anthropology at Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research. Both writers found that Freud's views on sex are not only misbegotten but unrealistic and sadly out of date. One of the reasons that his theories still command popular respect "is that...
...most part, the students merely giggled and answered that the word meant "sexual intercourse." But many of the 42,000 residents of the town questioned Mrs. Timbrook's divine inspiration. She insisted that her lecture's purpose was to prove that the word was "devoid of life and love." Nevertheless, parents besieged the superintendent of schools with irate phone calls and, at hastily convened meetings, vilified Mrs. Timbrook as a "whore" and "a disgrace to womankind...
...film's sexual interludes go-and they manage simultaneously to go too far and not far enough-those, too, are beneath contempt to Newley. "I suppose I'm really antifeminist," he admits. "If a man really loved women, he'd treat them with more respect." But then, how can you offer respect when you don't have much, even for yourself? "Perhaps once you stop being hungry, you don't produce such good stuff," says Newley the film critic. "I'm beginning to lose it. My work-all of it -is a hobby...