Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Degree of Agony. Unlike most Englishmen, Francis Thompson had not the least desire to travel, and never so much as crossed the Channel. If he ever felt sexual desire, it was lost in his belief that "all human love ... is a symbol of divine love," and should be treated accordingly. Not all the women he met understood this -particularly the mothers of unmarried daughters. Author Meynell prints the unconsciously funny letter of one anxious mother who feared that her daughter might succumb to Poet Thompson. "It is not in her nature to love you; but I see no reason...
Nobody can estimate how many sex "crimes" are actually committed, the researchers concluded, because most sexual acts which violate California's penal code are done in private by "mutually consenting" adults. Even when the crime is clearer, as in cases involving children, it is often hushed up. But in recorded court cases, the investigators could find no evidence of a great wave of sex crime, or that "sex fiends" were everywhere on the prowl. Serious sex offenses made up one-tenth of all the criminal cases tried in the superior courts. The fact finders considered the commoner misdemeanors (such...
Toumanoff was asked if he thought it a good idea to deny the promotion board knowledge that an employee was a sexual deviate. He replied: "Yes sir, I think it is a good idea." Then Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, freshman from Washington, put a hypothetical case before the witness: Suppose that the files showed a candidate for promotion was a convicted homosexual? Would you then withhold the evidence? Toumanoff was silent...
...small mid-western town, it is a smooth, logical delineation of characters, who are frustrated, moved by sexual passions, by social desires for security. Joshua Logan's interpretation in no way detracts from the minute reproduction Inge has created. Neither does the single set, designed by Jo Mielziner...
...shelter the human race. A house is an energetic environment valve because man, the 28-jointed, etc., biped, creates or modifies his environment by the energy he brings to it; it is the house's function to sluice the biped's energy into its appropriate social, sexual, digestive or somnolent modes. In the Fuller terminology, an automobile is a migratory glassed-in front porch; an airplane is a powerized, high-speed room. "Bucky thinks the individual should be able to exist by just plugging himself into the landscape," a friend said recently...