Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manly or a woman womanly-or vice versa? Many homosexuals are living proof that physical organs alone are not decisive. Freud and his followers argued that the sexual personality was often determined by seemingly trivial incidents in childhood. When the so-called "sexual hormones" (testosterone in men, estradiol in women) were discovered, many physicians decided that hormones must be the agents which determine sexual behavior. In recent years, tens of thousands of effeminate males and masculine females have been given shots of one or the other...
...college to pick, parents have no particular favorite. Harvard leads the men's list, but with only 3.5%. Vassar (2%) is tops for women. Sixty percent want their daughters to go to coed schools, and 58% favor the same for their sons. By two to one, U.S. parents prefer schools where their children will have a chance to join fraternities and sororities...
...Kent explains her novel and its denial of the virtues she has preached for years as "a kind of protest. I kept being torn between the nice living I've made out of radio and the sense of shame I have at turning out the kind of stuff women listeners demand." Whenever she tried making Portia "more rounded," a sliding Hooperating and a cascade of angry letters sent her scurrying back to the shelter of the nearest clump of clich...
...Scripter Kent added, wistfully: "When I think of that big, listening ear out there, I think how wonderful it would be if some writer could find a formula for giving women the substance and not the shadow of life...
...witness against one of the witches: "We walked in clouds and could not see our way. And we have most cause to be humble for error . . . which cannot be retrieved." And indeed it could not be retrieved, for before the nine months' hysteria spent itself 20 innocent men & women had been executed in Salem...