Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson...
...Naturally," said Dr. Bowes, "the less organized will treat their hi-fi set rather like the emotionally immature treat a car-as an expression of aggression, as a power symbol. To many it has a sexual connotation. Perhaps in the twiddling of knobs there may be a masturbatory equivalent. Certainly the ability to take control of a situation relieves anxiety, and what control is given to the manipulator of a hi-fi apparatus when with the flick of a wrist he may attenuate his treble, emphasize his bass, turn down the volume to a whisper, or blast the neighbors with...
Lita bore Charlie another son, Sydney, and divorced him after two years of marriage-but why go on? It is most curious that Lita, now 58 and living in retirement in Hollywood, can recall after 40 years the precise details of every sexual encounter she had with Chaplin despite an ensuing procession of other husbands (two) and other lovers (untabulated), and periodic bouts with the bottle that sent her reeling to sanitariums. She remembers Charlie better than Charlie remembers her. In his autobiography, he did not even mention her by name and dismissed their marriage in three sentences...
...supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter's giddy girl friend for sexual overtures and fun with a cat. The scene is a brilliant tour de force of unstrained comic invention...
...Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships with the butcher for an extra piece of pork chop for the kids." The neighborhood hero is the man who betters his lot by any means -the man who "wears a $200 silk suit every day, $55 alligator shoes and this sort of thing. He drives a big Cadillac...