Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which he was proudest (the escape from the Leads and the duel with Branicki) seem to have been authentic. Author S. Guy Endore bases his account of Casanova...
...Patriarch. William Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region. When one of his sons slays another in a fit of sexual rage, the hoary solon is faithful to the credo of the crags and becomes the boy's executioner. While it provokes thought, is often sensitively acted, this earnest incident has perhaps been regarded too literally, fails to achieve dramatic impact...
Hero George was born in the worst sort of airless middle class Victorian household. His parents, blindfolded and swaddled by sexual ignorance and sentimentalism, had tumbled into marriage and lived at leisure in shabby gentility and domestic tyranny. George became a painter, and, in revolt against his parents' ideas, contracted a free and childless union with Elizabeth. Later, when she mistakenly believed herself pregnant, he married her. They agreed that each should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went...
...Significance. Death of a Hero falls into two parts, a condemnation of the Victorians, especially for their sexual obscurantism, and a condemnation of the War. They are not well linked, except that both contribute to the catastrophe, and the second is far stronger. The Victorians are satirized with a savagery that defeats itself, for the reader begins to protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously...
...generally know effective means of contraception. He urged birth-control knowledge for uneducated people. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of the University of Iowa would have the state do the educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women are daily growing more promiscuous anyway." The American Birth Control League has called for a first national conference on birth control, "to consider its social, moral, religious, economic and legal aspects." Place: Manhattan. Time...