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Ten-Year Plan. Romains is one of the most prolific of living writers. When he started writing Men of Good Will, he had already turned out many volumes-Death of a Nobody, which won sincere critical praise, popular plays on the level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction's Maignot Line | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

> What sorts of stimuli, Psychologist Ramsey wanted to know, have the most erotic effect on boys? Very young boys (under 14) responded most to talk about sex, older boys to seeing a naked girl. Next to these ranked daydreams, obscene pictures, movies, burlesque. Music, jazz or otherwise, was at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys and Sex | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

> Sex play began as early as the age of five. By early adolescence (14), two-thirds of the boys had engaged in erotic play with girls; nine out of ten had masturbated; more than a third had had a homosexual experience; one in ten had experimented with animals. By 18...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys and Sex | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Says Georgia O'Keeffe of her flower paintings: "I am attempting to express what I saw in a flower which apparently others failed to see." For years people have been seeing all kinds pf things in O'Keeffe's flowers. Critic Lewis Mumford has seen a celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Woman from Sun Prairie | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Standish's House of Fureno begins to rise through the prodigious exertions of Tenjo Fureno, sent by his samurai father to learn the secrets of the Western powers. In no time at all, Tenjo pumps an English missionary and a Scottish banker of everything they know, shocks the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Sons | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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