Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within the volume are less convincing "proofs" of this attitude. The legends of Snow White, of Hansel and Gretel, of Goldilocks are parsed for every psychological nuance. Here the reader leaves the nursery for what Vladimir Nabokov calls "the fundamentally medieval world of Freud, with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying, from their natural nooks, upon the love life of their parents." To Bettelheim, Goldilocks' peek into the bears' house "evokes associations to the child's desire to find...
...action proceeds mainly as a kind of extended barracks-room bull session. But eventually, sexual desire between Richie and Carlyle triggers a racist diatribe from Billy. Suddenly Carlyle flips out his switchblade, slashes Billy (apparently mortally) and then carves up a fat intruding master sergeant, killing him. Physically and dramatically, this seems like an arbitrarily gory denouement, but the logic of inevitable violence has governed the play all along...
...Wellesley College Parents' Association failed to take any action at a meeting Saturday on charges that the college promoted sexual promiscuity among its students, a Wellesley spokesman said yesterday...
...meeting, John W. Galbraith, the father of a Wellesley senior, reported the response to a letter he sent March 31 to all students' parents in which he said sexual immorality was being taught "24 hours a day, seven days a week" through unrestricted dormitory visiting hours for male guests...
...letter contained a petition on which parents could affirm or deny they are "opposed to the sexual freedom permitted in the dormitories...