Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the delegates at the National Catholic Family Life Convention in Buffalo have censured romantic love among teenagers, mixed marriages and birth control, I would like to ask the following question: How can these ecclesiastical bachelors consider themselves qualified to make decisions concerning family, marital and sexual problems? A Catholic priest attempting to be an authority on such problems is as ludicrous as a man trying to coach a football team when he has never seen a football game...
...doctor's methods include the Nutritional, Dynamic, Informational, Sexual, Devotional, Preoccupational, Virtue and Vice Therapies, not to mention Theotherapy and Atheotherapy. This genius-quack, "a kind of super-pragmatist," tells Patient Horner: "It would not be well in your case to believe in God. Religion will only make you despondent. But until we work out something for you it will be useful to subscribe to some philosophy. Why don't you read Sartre and become an existentialist? . . . Study the World Almanac: it is to be your breviary for a while...
...sexual reproduction, the chromosomes behave differently. The sex cells (sperm and egg) are the end results of a complicated process (meiosis or reduction division) that gives each of them half as many chromosomes as in the nonsexual cells. This reduction is necessary because the sex cells join during fertilization of the egg, and if each contributed a full set of chromosomes, the fertilized egg would have twice the normal number. But if both sperm and egg contribute half as many chromosomes, the fertilized egg gets just the right number...
Mutated Mold. The Beadle and Tatum plan for Neurospora was to try to create strains that differ from the normal mold in simple, chemical ways. Their method was simple, too. They irradiated mold with X rays to induce mutations. Then they gathered spores formed by sexual reproduction and laid them out on a sheet of agar jelly containing the minimum nutrients that natural wild mold requires. Some of the spores sprouted and grew normally, showing that they had not been mutated in any obvious way. Some were dead, perhaps mutated too much...
...chill. After a trip to Italy, his wife recites a simple fact of life to him: "George, you know you're getting too old for this sort of thing-it's not good for you; you look ghastly." But Author Lessing does not play this situation for sexual repartee. Her story is a comment on vapid people who have grown incapable of the emotions that can cement a marriage or even a love affair...