Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most successful sections are those which mange to interweave the personal with the political. The entry for Samuel Prescott, for exampel, tells the perhaps n ot untypical story of one Puritan's growing tolerance for free expression, resulting in part from his own foray into sexual philandering. The sexual peccadilloes of Basil Litchfiled--who lives with a half-crazed wife and hides his homosexual yearnings from his Unitarian colleagues--also sustain dramatic interst...
...items in the campaign were Carter's sexual fantasies and Miss Lillian's fish pond. That's pretty thin gruel to run a campaign on," he said...
...Sexual Obsession. In them, the longtime FBI chief appears almost obsessed with information about sexual habits, particularly homosexuality. In many of the 164 O.C. file folders, a deleted name is followed by the notation, "Alleged to be homosexual." In one memo, a man is reputed to be a homosexual and to be also having an affair with a woman. There is a report of a phone conversation between the director and Senator Joe McCarthy, who wondered whether somebody about to get an appointment was a homosexual. The folders even deal with allegations that Hoover himself was a homosexual. One three...
Other students have expressed frustration about what they see as Pennypacker residents' observance of the "incest taboo"--the tendency to view the man or woman next door as a friend or neighbor, but never as a potential sexual partner. There are exceptions, but in general the men and women "act a lot like brother and sister," a female resident notes. "But that's okay," she quickly adds, "because things are a lot more relaxed that way." The women join readily in games of vertical football and other traditionally all-male Pennypacker pursuits--a fact that surprises Reardon, who had expected...
Although overall, fewer serious crimes were reported this year, some offenses did show increases. Petty larceny increased about 4 per cent, with trespassing reports rising by 70 per cent. Reporting of certain sex-related crimes such as obscene telephone calls increased slightly in frequency, but sexual assault and rape decreased...