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Even in an age of sexual laxity, the marquis was often in prison for sexual offenses. In a frolic in Marseille, four prostitutes took turns flailing De Sade with a twig broom (they had refused to use his favorite whip studded with nails). Then De Sade fed a girl candies which she claimed were poisoned, but which De Sade insisted were only aphrodisiacs. The girl became so ill she went to the police. De Sade, who skipped town in the nick of time, was condemned to death in absentia and burned in effigy. When he ran off with his wife...
While seniors go through the stately rituals of Commencement and reunioners frolic and make merry, 37 Harvard oarsmen have been hard at work at the Crimson's Red Top headquarters on the Thames River near New London, Conn...
...fact, the comparative coolness of the day encouraged frolic on the golf links, the tennis courts, and the soft-ball field, if not swimming. Eager golfers started before 9 a.m. and included Dean von Stade and John Rockefeller, while Presidential assistant Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Chief Marshal Francis Keppel both occupied the tennis courts for part...
...bottle-nosed, henpecked country and set myself down, get out my materials and make as accurate a painting of what I see in front of me as I can." Anshutz' canvases breathe in life the way lungs take in air. In several seascapes at the gallery, young boys frolic over the beach, and the whole canvas tingles with their impatient eagerness for the water. At a calmer moment, two young school-boys-one with sleeves tightly rolled up-play out a grim game of checkers. One of the pictures that Mrs. Kennedy bought. Boys at Holly Beach...
...officially sanctioned nudist beaches specially set aside for them by the West German government. Of the organized German nudists, most are laborers, tradesmen and white-collar workers. But not all. Clad only in signet ring and cigar, some of Germany's richest and most famed industrialists also frolic in the buff at exclusive North Sea beaches. What they all have in common, explains an earnest West German sociologist, is a need to escape from the tedium of the affluent society-"the craving to have something that everyone else doesn't have-or vice versa in this case." Nudism...