Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feminine psychology in his writing. Elias' biography shows in part why. When he first became interested in girls, the baker's daughter cordially offered "to show him the mysteries which he had hitherto dared only to dream about." At another point, when he was worried about his sexual adequacy, a college girl enticed him into intimate relations. In the depths of his despair and humiliation women suddenly appeared from nowhere-they were his for the asking, and no one he had the courage to approach seems to have refused him. When he was growing seriously ill in Chicago...
...Backward. Genetics probably offers the Soviet authorities one of their trickiest methods of posing as a source of scientific light and hope. Western genetics, following Mendel and Morgan, teaches that the inherited characteristics of living organisms are largely controlled by genes passed down from parents to offspring. During sexual reproduction the genes are shuffled, but except in the case of accidental mutations they are not changed. Lysenko teaches that the form of an organism is determined by the environment in which it develops. He claims to have modified plant species merely by moving them around Russia. (Western geneticists have tried...
Planted Ironies. The Wall, now published in an expensive limited edition, is a volume of Sartre's short stories written in 1939. His earlier writing turns out to have been an uncompromising preview of his latter-day pessimism. The characters are chiefly miserable neurotics beset by sexual frustrations, their personal despair compounded by life's (or Sartre's) carefully planted ironies...
...hero of Erostratus expresses his morbid hatred of his fellows through a completely senseless murder. The longest and most ambitious story is The Childhood of a Leader. This is Sartre's cold dissection of a French industrialist's son, showing how his social and sexual inadequacies led him to the assuagements of anti-Semitism and a superpatriotism...
...destroying the fertility of the land. Poet Thomas Merton, now a Trappist monk, lent poetic excitement to his autobiographical account of a worldly young pagan's conversion to Roman Catholicism, in Seven Storey Mountain. And, in a category all its own, there was Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was a continuing bestseller in spite of its statistical dullness, and gave rise to more bad jokes and pseudoscientific claptrap than any book in recent years...