Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is little indication of the truly morbid turn the novel will take as the narrator's investigation carries him further and further into the recesses of the subterranean hospital. During his quest he encounters a veritable circus sideshow of diseased cripples and sexual freaks: the building's assistant director, a character called- "the horse," who cured his impotence through an operation turning him into a kind of centaur; the secretary who was born a test-tube baby, and so lacks any sense of human relationships; & couple who determined to safeguard their marriage by subjecting every conversation...
...Young People: Faced with problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility: escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. But today, I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape ... Whatever you make of your life, let it be something that reflects the love of Christ ... Whatever you do, remember that Christ is calling you, in one way or another, to the service of love: the love of God and of your neighbor ... Love demands effort and a personal...
...white restaurants and qualify them for higher-paying jobs now reserved for whites. Most shocking to traditionalist Afrikaners: suggestions of a possible repeal of the Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Act, the laws under which more than 15,000 South Africans have been prosecuted for marrying or having sexual relations across the color line. Botha urged the reforms with rhetoric that is mild by U.S. standards but nearly inflammatory for a dedicated member of the Broederbond, the Afrikaner secret society. Said he: "There are higher things in life than to stare at the color...
...quirky sexual relationships of the group are never presented as anything less than humane and pleasant. Niceness, however, does not quite cover the fact that the Jamet character is kept in ignorance of her true situation and, in her innocence, exploited. There is also some rather ugly background information that leads one to believe that Housekeeper Frey may be a good deal more psychotic in his motivations than the movie cares to admit openly, while his male companion may be somewhat more than charmingly antisocial in some of his. The movie is, finally, quite dishonest: an antibourgeois tract that...
Schultz has the sexual attitudes of Sebastian Dangerfield, the Ginger Man, which is to say that he loves sex but resents the fact that heterosexuality drives him to the company of women...