Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Pessimistic over the sex explosion [July 11]? Not me. Perhaps at last people will get so accustomed to the sight of the human body undraped that they will no longer spend their time and money just to see it. Soon movies, magazines, plays, etc., will have to come up with some other gimmick to attain the attention of the public and the dollar. Who knows? Maybe someone will even rediscover the use of thought and talent...
...Sir: "Cancer" has long been regarded as the dirtiest word in the English language. Until the late 1950s, many newspapers and magazines carefully avoided using it and it was whispered about as a dreaded family secret. But banning the word did not eliminate the disease or lessen its effect. It is possible, however, that our semantical escapism did actually thwart medical research into the disease to a high degree...
...Sir: Your cover story was interesting but inconclusive. You failed to point out the chief casualties of the current smut cycle: style, class and grace, which continue to be indispensable qualities of enduring art. Today's vendors of sexual kitsch have kept the dirty bath water (in some cases literally) and thrown out the baby, and with it their chances of eventual survival. Boredom will rescue us from their brand of entertainment...
...Sir: I expect that soon you will be publishing smoke-room stories; but if and when you do, please check with me. I believe there are only 18 basic ones-so don't overdo...
...category of art, accepted as such in China and India. Boucher's paintings for Louis XV were intended to arouse Louis XV, and by all accounts they did. I have been sexually aroused reading D. H. Lawrence, reading Ovid and reading of Hero and Leander. And it was Sir Kenneth Clark who said that anyone who paints a nude with no desire to produce an erotic effect is a hypocrite...