Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambunctious young cowboy's courtship-which is virtually a kidnaping-of a soiled young Kansas City nightclub singer. Very slowly the clodhopper (Albert Salmi) discovers that an ounce of tenderness is worth a pound of bluster, while the audience simultaneously discovers that it is the bluster of a sexual tenderfoot. And the girl discovers that, though courted as though she were a punching bag, she is for once being thought of as though she were a lady...
...Freud still clung to the mechanical and material scientism of his age. He constructed a new. detailed, machinelike scheme of the mind. The steam that made the machine run was sexual energy or libido. In Freud's view, the unconscious was cluttered with emotional material, commonly thought of as forgotten but actually repressed because of a conflict between sex-powered drives and personal or social
...When Jung denied the predominantly sexual nature of the libido, Freud saw it as open rebellion. By 1913 the break was final: Jung wrote Freud "that I could do no further work with him if he would not give up that dogmatic attitude." Said Freud: "We took leave from one another without feeling the need to meet again...
...there it is-there is no more. But Grace is like a kaleidoscope: one twist, and you get a whole new facet." Under Hitchcock's expert direction, Grace bloomed in Rear Window. As a sleek young career girl, she distilled a tingling essence of what Hitchcock has called "sexual elegance." She was learning her trade. The way she walked, spoke and combed her hair had a sureness that gives moviegoers a comfortable feeling: she would never make them wince with some awkwardness of misplaced gaucherie. Exhibitors, who know a good thing when they see the turnstiles click, began dropping...
...Test-Tube Case" [Dec. 27]: the noticeable absence of morality contained in Dr. Kinsey's comedies on sexual behavior were their main weakness. So it is with those who condone test-tube babies and are shocked when told they are doing something immoral. Northwestern University's Dr. Irving Stein talks arrant nonsense when he implies that artificial insemination is moral merely because people are asking to have babies in that manner . . . The whole idea of a Christian marriage is destroyed when a wife attempts conception by "relations" with a man other than her husband, whether...