Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the University mammalogist, however, the young hippos at the zoo are enjoying only a temporary freedom from subordination to their mates. "When they reach sexual maturity the female will become dominant, just as is the case with elks, elephants, and seals," he predicted...
...Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor also acted as censor when his department banned the French film Game of Love (TIME, Jan. 24). O'Connor testified that the movie must be immoral and obscene because it "aroused sexual feelings in me." Said he: "Feelings should come naturally. There are no stimulants necessary for nature. Nature takes care of itself...
...then The History of American Funeral Directing, by Sociologist Robert W. Habenstein and Historian William M. Lamers, may reveal more about America than many Americans want to know. Though the style of the authors is as dry as Aristotle's ashes, their history of the social, commercial, sanitary, sexual, artistic and religious relations between the living and the dead has a great and gruesome fascination...
...Deer Park's problems are solved in a predictable way, but not before the contents of a madame's memory for sexual oddities has spilled all over the book. (Incidental intelligence, which will cause lifted eyebrows in Europe: after an illicit night, it is the gentleman who makes breakfast.) There is some good recorded speech, and readers of Confidential magazine can brush up their vocabularies. Sample: "Don't panic, love-bucket . . . Get me a small martin...
...Marlowe) with his own family. All goes well until he takes into his home two Sicilian cousins who have entered the U.S. illegally. The niece and one of the cousins (Richard Davalos)-a blond youth who likes to sing and cook-fall in love. Eddie's intense, unrealized sexual feeling for the niece drives him to jealous rancors. He taunts the girl that the boy seeks marriage only as a way of gaining citizenship; he tries to make the neighborhood think the boy is a homosexual. Still thwarted, he blabs about the cousins' illegal entry to the immigration...