Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby, two-martini lives at the universities where they serve as assistant professors. The snowy-souled coeds they shepherd through seminars must be highly skeptical about French Poet Arthur Rimbaud's formula for creative success: "Systematic derangement of the senses," sometimes through ordinary alcohol, more often with absinthe, sexual inversion and hashish...
Life & Love. Although he is neither a trained musician nor an anthropologist, Lomax has arrived at some general conclusions. For example, people in remote (often Northern) parts of continental European countries tend to "take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
...Emergency), a Georges Simenon story about a successful lawyer's fatal obsession with a young slut failed to win (and that Japans "Rickshaw Man" did). A traveling movie fan named Elsa Maxwell just about guaranteed Malheur's American triumph by announcing: "Bardot is a nothing, a sexual little kitten of no importance. She has no talent except for undressing onscreen. This is a very bad thing for American youth...
...Christian decision.'' The means are largely a matter of "clinical and aesthetic choice." But for Christians some means are unlawful: 1) withholding of one partner from the other without mutual consent; 2) interrupted coitus, precluding the husband's or wife's "full completion of the sexual act"; 3) induced abortion or infanticide. The bishops endorsed artificial insemination only if the husband is the donor...
...Married couples have three equally important duties: procreation, sexual relations and the obligations of family loyalty. To keep all three "in one frame of moral reference is an art man has had a long fight to learn, and must still steadily fight to preserve." However difficult the balance may be, the new freedom that modern methods of contraception brings to "sexuality in marriage in our time is ... a gate to a new depth and joy in personal relationships between husband and wife. At a time when so much in our culture tends to depersonalize life-to erode and dissolve...