Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee, is despondent, not because he has no job, but rather because he could not seduce a teenage swimmer. The narrator, who has come to Desert D'Or with fourteen thousand dollars won in an unbelievable Air Force poker game, is equally sad because he could not fulfill his sexual needs in Japan. But into their lives come Elena and Lulu, and after some near-pornographic love-making scenes, the two men are both happy again, and better able to enjoy life in Mailer's world...
...Western Europe, Dostoevsky was desolated to learn that within less than a month she had taken up with and been thrown over by another man. He begged to travel with her "like a brother." Apollinaria agreed, and vengefully parried all his advances. Years later, she described how the nightly sexual tragicomedy would end: "Fyodor Mikhailovich again turned everything into a joke and, as he was leaving me, said that it was humiliating for him to leave me like that (this was at 1 in the morning; I was lying undressed in bed). 'For Russians have never fallen back...
...sent to Matteawan asylum, and for the next 16 years was in and out of confinement, once after a sexual assault on a 19-year-old boy. He died of a heart attack in 1947. Evelyn (who got very little of Thaw's money until his death, when he left her $10,000) drifted from big vaudeville circuits into the little "speaks," and from there into a series of petty failures-a tea room, a cosmetic business-that were interspersed with two attempts at suicide. Now 70, she has recently been teaching ceramics in Los Angeles...
...what he can to avoid fatigue and excitement. He should spend ten hours in bed and take short naps, often. Every extra pound of flesh on the patient means work for the heart, so-reduce. Moderation is also prescribed in smoking and drinking, in exercise and sexual activity...
...many don'ts. It is disturbing to me to read medical recipes for long life which first prohibit smoking, then alcohol, and tell you to cut out butter and other fats, and end by suggesting that some kinds of cancer can be avoided by total abstention from sexual intercourse. That is limiting life pretty sharply. We don't want to make invalids, but to help these people to live lives that are longer and happier and more useful. I think we are learning how to do that...