Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director Launder gives them both plenty of opportunities. Sim plays the smug, hand-rubbing headmaster of a boys' school who is thrown for a loss when a mixed-up Ministry of Education dumps a girls' school on the premises. ("Someone," he moans, "is guilty of an appalling sexual aberration.") Headmistress Rutherford is the formidably efficient battle-ax who leads the invasion, tackles one of the problems of boys-&-girls-together by canceling biology classes...
Bestsellers have never been Conrad Aiken's forte. He reached the peak of his reputation during the '20s, when he wrote long and languid narratives about sexual decadence, blending the theories of Sigmund Freud with the tone of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1930, his poetry won him a Pulitzer Prize. Since then, Aiken has increasingly found himself in the painful position of the good minor writer who has ceased to be a novelty, his name well known but his work little read. Never one to cater to literary fashion, Aiken has continued to write as he sees...
...Camillo was no ordinary priest. He had a mortar hidden in his house and on occasion he carried a Tommy gun. At other times he lied, poached, attempted bribery and fought with his fists. Once, when he attacked the subject of sexual immorality, he draped the crucifix in his church with a cloth so that Christ might not be obliged to listen to his blunt language...
...Woman's Machinery. Change of life means that a woman is through with her childbearing days, but not necessarily her sexual life. In fact, says Dr. Lincoln, with the fear of pregnancy removed, many women relax completely and really enjoy sex for the first time in their lives...
Combat & Clothes. In another classification of frigid women the doctors lump the 'gold-digger,' who is financially exploiting many sexual partners and husbands ... the prostitute ... and the nymphomaniac, the latter in search for satisfaction which is never achieved...