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Word: sexuality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that definitely will not change: the Army's attitude to indiscriminate sex and to spirituous drink. "Every one of the thousands of Salvationists," said General Kitching, "is a total abstainer. We deplore the easy thinking that exists today in the matter of sexual license and impurities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Army | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...religion, art and women were his sports. In art, Gulbenkian polished his own tastes, finally acquired by shrewd trading what was one of the finest private collections in the world, ranging from Rembrandts and Rubenses to Paul Chabas' famed September Morn. As for women, "a varied sexual experience is necessary to the rhythm of life," he once told Secretary Young. "It quietens, it deadens, and it diverts." For the rhythm section of his life, Gulbenkian required a new girl about once every three months. He seemed to prefer the Eliza Doolittle type. There was a discreet "mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid Gold Scrooge | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...CRIMSON asked his opinion of the sexual segregation encouraged by the counselors. The young man answered simply, "That's good." His counselor the young man reported, is "nice," but, upon the admonition of the CRIMSON reporter, he reported that he had already murdered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Offspring of 1933, Counselors Begin Reunion Combat | 6/10/1958 | See Source »

...says Rostand, "was constructed by and for a certain living species whose reproduction is sexual, whose two sexes are separate and about equal in number, whose fertilization is internal, whose period of gestation is about nine months. The sex of the infants of this species is recognizable at birth and, in general, does not change during life. It is evident that if man were hermaphroditic like the snail or could grow a new head like the earthworm, he would not have given himself the same laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Biology of Individuality | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...dropping in sequence. There are specialists in the texture and surface temperature of the body, ranging in the first case from marble to velvet; in the second from hot to cool, which is partly seasonal; in summer fiction they tend to be cool. There are also body-geography and sexual-topology students-erotic spelunkers of a sort. Since the modified screenplay distantly related to From Here to Eternity, fornication in the surf has become the desideratum, so that the brief tussle in the sea foam has now become a standard image of suggestion, and when the waves keep on breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lovable Bums & Jolly Slashers | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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