Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even unpainted, Tibetan females are among the world's ugliest. Yet Tibetans practice polygamy, polyandry and all forms of sexual perversion, and almost everybody (doctors estimate 99%) has a venereal disease. What modern improvements Lhasa has are the work of the Chinese and British. Tibet is not only a back door to China, but its religion is observed by 2,000,000 Mongols whom China very much wants to keep as buffering friends. Likewise Tibet is for England a buffer between the U. S. S. R. and India...
This is often made possible in France because there it is traditional to regard marriage and sexual love as either fusable or separate things. This does not mean that every French husband or bachelor has a mistress. What it does mean is that the French woman does not have to be enigmatic, isolated or incomprehensible. Like her husband she is gregarious, and hence wants a family more than she wants the vote. Like him, she is economical, often in the less advantaged classes to the point of unsanitation. A beaten rug loses part of its life, and no scraps...
...proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing...
...Swan" of Huxley's sour fable is Jo Stoyte: old, half-mad with wealth and power ("they are the same"), desperately hanging on to his sexual potency, desperately afraid of its loss, of age, of death. In his gigantic ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections...
...something in South America in a topee and a pair of expensive boots (a photograph proves it), and he has an ingratiatingly beautiful wife (same equipment), but his tales are in the "Green Hell" category. Gold and other treasure is the goal of most of the adventures narrated; the sexual problems presented by Amazon Indian women in beaded aprons are coy complications in several plots...