Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved relation to heredity, e.g., eczema, psoriasis, allergic diseases, migraine, stuttering. Others are known to occur more commonly in some families than in others, such as diabetes and nearsightedness. "Another large group," Kemp notes, "includes psychopathy, psychopathic or abnormal personalities often associated with criminality, alcoholism, asociality, vagrancy, suicide or sexual perversion." Prevailing medical opinion is that none of this last group of conditions is hereditary; all are believed to be caused by environmental factors...
...distinguishes her work from the rest of the issue. Perhaps I like it because she writes about Cambridge and uses the old familiar techniques with punctuation and grammar and "realistic" people, which require less reader effort than other approaches. Perhaps it is only that she writes directly about local sexual relations, which is diverting...
Arbiter of Dalliance. If Publius Ovidius Naso (i.e., "Big Nose") had any qualms about the decadence of Augustan Rome, it can only be inferred, as in Restoration comedy, from the intensity of his frivolity. "Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication," says Translator Humphries. In a city of such sophisticates, Ovid, whose unlikely origin was the hard, bitter soil of Abruzzi (where he was born 2,000 years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial...
...pail of water for long periods to make them talk. The second torture consisted in suspending them, their hands tied to their feet behind their backs, this time with their heads up, then placing beneath them a trestle [sawhorse], and swinging them with fist blows so that their sexual organs banged against the sharp crossbar of the trestle...
Born. To Norman Mailer, 34. novelist-chronicler of American sexual and other frustrations (The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park), and second wife Adele, 31: a daughter, their second child; in Manhattan. Name: Danielle Leslie. Weight...