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Word: naughtier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kinsey litmus would probably show that the average Frenchman is no naughtier than most people, but French novelists have made his little delinquencies into one of the most readable of literary exports. To be sure, there are the existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mostly About Sex | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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