Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge devotees of Ingmar Bergman will have to wait for The Virgin Spring if it's the artistic manipulation of a new and different situation they're after. For Dreams sheds little light on the already thoroughly essayed subject of mis-matched lovers. Marred by disturbing patches of untimigated boredom, this Bergman import lacks the sparkle of either Smiles of a Summer Night or A Lesson in Love...
...Jacobson started the delicate job of identifying the moths' chemical siren song. He began with 500,000 female gypsy pupae collected in Spain and Connecticut. When the virgin moths (female gypsy moths lose their siren scent at the same time as their virginity) emerged, the tips of their abdomens were snipped off, dropped into benzene...
...fault of having been too generous to too many men. She was a virtuous Italian lady of noble birth, a gentle widow and devoted mother. Her father, mother and doctor were not amused when she denied having entertained any man, and a midwife sternly reminded her that only the Virgin Mary had been raised above the law of nature. Whereupon the baffled Marquise put an ad in the paper, described her predicament and asked any man to come forward who might be responsible. When the man shows up, with an explanation of the mystery, no reader will be unduly surprised...
...anthropologist, captured in darkest Africa by a lost tribe of lithe, fair-skinned vixens, whose only desire is that he stay and propagate the race. The scholarly but virile anthropologist always has a beautiful fiancee back at the university to whom neither love potion nor dance of the seven virgin starlets can keep him from returning...
...Radio Moscow admitted "alarming" delays in harvesting grain in Kazakhstan, Khrushchev's favorite Central Asian "virgin lands" region, which was counted on to boost this year's grain harvest 6% above 1958's 141 million-ton harvest. Many of the tractors needed to cut the crops before the first snow were out of order for lack of spare parts, grumbled Radio Moscow. Millions of bushels of cut grain were still lying out in the open because thousands of "volunteer" workers had quit in disgust with low wages and Kazakhstan's primitive living conditions. In a similar...