Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sexual experiences of growing boys have not had much detached study. But Indiana University's Glenn V. Ramsey has lately made some unusual inquiries. He asked frank questions of 291 middle-class boys in "a Middle Western city," got apparently frank answers. Findings...
...Normal sexual intercourse is "altogether beneficial," but "a state of chronic low-grade sexual excitement ... is particularly undesirable for the hypertensive...
...charges against the detectives were dismissed on a legal technicality. Then police reported finding two convicts who swore that Brinkley had boasted he had killed Melendes in a fight in the cell. For a while Brinkley was hounded by police and FBI, charged with draft dodging, indicted for sexual perversion, perjury and, finally, for second-degree murder. Next came eminent physicians, who examined bits of skin tissue under a microscope, cast doubt that violence alone had caused Melendes' death. The Civil Liberties Committee, taking up Brinkley's case, could now find no witnesses who remembered anything. (The trollop...
...Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech, the Lindegrens had long crossbred fruit flies, which breed a new generation every three weeks. Yeast can produce a new generation in as little as 20 minutes. Yeast cells, usually having no sex, reproduce simply by splitting in two. Under certain conditions yeast develops sexual characteristics and, like other plants, reproduces by means of spores. The Lindegrens cultivated yeast with spores, opened the spore sacs and cross-fertilized them, in this way bred thousands of new varieties of yeast. Finally, they got some to the king's taste...
...Forster is "deeply at odds with the liberal mind." Liberals may go a long way with Forster; "they can seldom go all the way." They smile happily when Forster flays the manners and morals of the British middle class, when he whoops up the "virtues of sexual fulfillment" and "the values of intelligence," when he satirizes the powers that be, "questions the British Empire, and attacks business ethics and [British] public schools." And yet they have an uneasy feeling that "Forster is not quite playing their game," that his comic manner is "challenging" liberals as well as what liberals dislike...