Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone that middle-class people are ceasing to behave according to their old stand ards." When Smith left Germany the atmosphere was one of decay "and that atmosphere seems thickest among the Kleinbürgertum [petite bourgeoisie]." They were drinking simply "to get soused completely and unmitigatedly [and] sexual license of people once proud of their respectability has virtually run the prostitutes out of business...
...advent, Teddy's amative life had been in part fanciful, in part optical, in part under suburban hedges ("Starp it, I tell you!"), entirely virginal. When Teddy surprisingly received a comfortable bequest, Miss Birkenhead beat Miss Blame in the race for Hero Tewler. The seduction, marriage and sexual initiation, cruel but convincing, are brightened only by a dandified best man who neighs a stentorian Hey! before every brontosaurian innuendo...
Because he feared and never quite understood himself, because, in all probability, he never felt normal sexual desire in his life, his hunger for the easy comradeship of simple men developed. "More intent on excluding none than on wholely finding one," it was inevitable that he should remain innocent to the end of his days of psychology, character, the true nature of individualism, personality, tragedy, evil-all of which considerably complicate the problems of the poet and of the democratic theorist...
...famed Polish anthropologist; of a heart attack; in New Haven. He was one of the first anthropologists to study primitive societies at first hand, lived among the savages of the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea for four years, after his studies there wrote a series of books (including The Sexual Life of Savages in N.W. Melanesia) which became the most famed of his voluminous output...
...breakfast they ate "smoked blue-fish,, bread crisp like a cracker, chocolate and fruit." The words "spiritual" and "immoral" did not exist in their vocabulary. In lieu of the chameleon word "love" they talked (just a bit tediously) of apia (sexual desire) and ania (a high regard "justifying the physical"). They had no formal philosophy, little interest in abstract thought; they practiced a hedonism tempered with kindliness...