Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oxford Historian A.J.P. Taylor, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, added his historian's pennyworth to a lively London topic: "Most Englishmen do not like women. They have normal sexual desires; they need women as housekeepers; but they do not enjoy feminine society except at bed and board. Hence all our characteristic institutions-clubs, public houses, boarding schools, colleges -though not homosexual, still encourage homosexuality...
Katherine threw herself into community activities. She became a compulsive eater, and over the years puffed herself up into a caricature of the professional clubwoman. Amid economic troubles, sexual discontent and her husband's surly behavior, she appeared affable and relaxed. But by 48, she had dangerously high blood pressure, recurrent states of depression and other disturbing symptoms...
...doesn't mean that a person will be permitted to marry the day after he obtains a divorce, but it will be easier for the church to look at the whole matter." The new position is "an attempt to reflect the Biblical teaching of marriage as a sexual union, and to put remarriage of divorced persons on a less legalistic basis and a different basis than guilt or innocence...
...Genius and the Goddess, by Aldous Huxley, discoursed with somewhat diminished brilliance on sexual infidelity at the genius level, grace and predestination in life, and the human limitations that accompany a very high...
...Rome, crowds cried: "Viva il Papa santo." ¶ The church must put sex "in its proper and God-given place," said the Church of England's Moral Welfare Council. "It is the church's care that sex should be rightly used and guided . . . Much of the sexual irregularity of today may ... be caused neither by wickedness nor by ignorance, but by the fact that man's creative instinct is being denied its proper channels." ¶ Winding up a ten-day campaign at Cambridge (TIME, Nov. 21) and Oxford Universities, Evangelist Billy Graham preached to an Oxford congregation...