Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legend of the Seventh Virgin, Holt...
...ever pored over the frontispiece chart in Treasure Island. Novelist Herman Wouk knows the pull of that enchantment. Six years ago, he fled the Manhattan theatrical and literary world, scene of his last two books (Youngblood Hawke and Marjorie Morningstar), and took his family to live in the Virgin Islands. His new novel, set in the Caribbean, begins enticingly with...
...also says that premarital sex "tends to lead to" postmarital affairs. He cites a Kinsey study which found that twice as many women who were not virgin at the time of marriage had at least one affair after marriage than women who were virgin...
...Legend of the Seventh Virgin, Holt...
...what?" she says. That bit of dialogue was exchanged between Snow White and Grumpy in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ah, so, heigh-ho. Gielgud is Snow White, and sensual Alice is Grumpy. But isn't she really the Virgin Mary? Doesn't she wear the Madonna's blue and hold him in the precise attitude of the Pieta as he dies? So he must be Grumpy then, and Grumpy must be Christ. Which Walt Disney never even suspected...