Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple terms of black and white, right and wrong. Bettelheim has chided U.S. schools for ignoring violence rather than facing up to this human tendency and teaching children how to deal with it. He has scoffed at the notion that U.S. women have achieved anything like the social and sexual emancipation they deserve. He also holds that the nation's racial dilemma is not unique but merely a "local variation of the universal problem" of discrimination...
...girl, Doris Mae Winter, is a social dropout too ("her formal education had come to an end when she slugged a history teacher for giving her a failing mark") and is frigid to boot. Romance, naturally, blossoms. She becomes Leonard's partner in a Bonnie sexual union-successful for him, enjoyable for her-before he comes to his Clyde...
...Sock it to me," one of Aretha's variations on "whip it," is another in the long list of sexual terms from blues or jazz that have passed into respectable everyday language. Having come to prominence through such recordings as Aretha's and Mitch Ryder's, "Sock it to me" is now used in a neutral sense as a catch-phrase on TV's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and is a common sight on bumper stickers and even political placards. Jazz (originally a copulative verb) and rock 'n' roll (from a blues lyric, "My baby rocks me with...
...homosexuality, of course, are as old to movies as the custard pie. Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days. Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made The Lost Weekend...
...What possibly could be the point of the golden chain? That line is just not a natural line of force and makes no esthetic or sexual sense...