Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lindey asked; "Did it lower your standards of right or wrong with respect to sexual behavior...
Although she never wears a uniform, as do London's "bobbyettes," Miss Taylor has the same authority as her masculine counterparts. Hers has always been a specialized job, however, for earlier in her police career she investigated cases where children were the victims of parents' sexual troubles, situations that might have proved embarrassing for male members of the old vice squad...
Since alcoholism has been regarded realistically, as the disease that it is ... there has been an encouraging percentage of cases cured. There seems little doubt that sexual abnormalities could also be more effectively handled by physicians and psychiatrists...
...this classic process of sexual selection, the male deer's glands grew bigger and muskier. The musk deer's luring game turned into a deadly risk for him when human beings caught on to the musk smell. As the deer's fame grew, rajahs and ranees, kings and their concubines, seducers and seductresses learned to use musk as a perfume. The Prophet Mohamed wrote in the Koran: "The Seal of Musk. For this let those pant who pant for bliss." The Empress Josephine, to rouse Napoleon's baser nature, used so much musk that the walls...
Stock Role. Thus assembled for their adventure, each of Steinbeck's principal characters may be dimly identified with a stock role in a leftist parable. Juan is a figure of free enterprise and individualism -sexual, of course, as well as economic. Pritchard is a cartoon of the corpsy soul of Anglo-U.S. capitalism, self-deceived and remote from natural life; Mrs. Chicoy is a type of frank, stupid and violent sensuality; Mrs. Pritchard is The Nice Woman, that baneful figure, whose frigidity is the source and symbol of her other deathly qualities; Mildred, her sulky offspring, apparently represents...