Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westminster's warning chimed with the joint statement recently given by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York (TIME, Nov. 1, 1943). Last week still another prelate chimed in. In Chelmsford, Anglican Bishop Henry Albert Wilson found "the landslide in sexual morals" so immense that he feared Christianity "is hanging by a thread in this country to-day." What particularly upset Bishop Wilson was a proposed Government measure which would permit magistrates' courts to handle divorce cases, now reserved for higher courts...
Said the Bishop: "Unquestionably morals in a sexual sense are getting worse and worse. . . . But we have reached a pretty pass when judges recommend that undefended cases should be dealt with by magistrates' courts. The only preventive for divorce is to make it more difficult. Young and thoughtless people would not rush into marriage if they knew it was very difficult to untie the knot and . . . many tiffs would be composed if the partners knew a divorce was hard to get and a disgrace...
...eroticism. In the St. Louis, Mo. (pop. 816,000) that she describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work - and the furniture of the rooms, the clothes of the women, petting the dog, playing the piano, take on a sultry, Sunday-supplement sexual significance. Her brief, artificial scenes are of sudden quarrels, abrupt endearments, pell-mell melodrama. But her emotional thunderstorms never clear the air after her emotional dog days...
...Wilson) is Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...
...arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...