Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...product of a "death drive"? Is civilization at the mercy of a nameless army of self-annihilators, men who kill with an almost sexual relish because they are secretly in love with death? In The War Lover (an October Book-of-the-Month Club choice), Novelist John Hersey (The Wall, A Single Pebble) has apparently sworn by the beard of Freud to bed Mars on the analyst's couch...
...himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina had gone to New York, reportedly to see her lawyer). Maria and I-"We love each other, but in God's name there is nothing of a sexual nature." Would he replace Callas' husband, Giovanni Meneghini, as the soprano's manager? "No," said the humble Midas. "My place is in the audience in a third-class seat. I am a mariner." With that, the sly, grizzled sea dog sailed off with his companion...
FOUNDATION GARMENTS. "As is well known, the manufacturer's terminology frequently has overtones of sexual innuendo. The 'ectoplasm' technique by which the garment is shown alone in motion probably is the least offensive demonstration method. The employment of an arrow, a dotted line or a pointer to show specific features is far preferable to the human hand...
...plagued less by his duties than by the drives of his own masculinity. He has tortured Platonic talkfests with Anna Arild, companion to the mistress of the house; Anna is a strait-laced Danish widow who interprets Serezha's every comment as a prelude to seduction. Finally, sexual tension drives him into the arms of the town prostitute, a "hoarse beauty" of an earthiness so casual that, "while standing in a nightshirt with her back to Serezha and answering him over her shoulder, she quite shamelessly and unashamedly made water in the tin basin...
...which of the following sexual practices do you disapprove because of your religious beliefs; i.e. do you find them objectionable not on secular grounds, but because of beliefs about God's commandments? (Disapprove-do not disapprove...