Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frenchman had written The Forsyte Saga, that protracted story of family life might have been no shorter, but it is a safe bet that readers would have been well informed about the Forsytes' sexual life. In The Pasquier Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel...
...told in the personal, random style of a farmer's almanac. Animal husbandry alternates with tributes to his wife; poetic fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
...Marriages of affection and companionship are likely on the average to be more successful than those of infatuation and romance." Infatuation does not necessarily indicate a satisfactory sexual adjustment after marriage...
...usually found in ladies' journals, embarked Maxine Davis on a series covering abortions, syphilis, menopause, degenerative diseases. "No Cause for Alarm" in the January 1938 number not only surpasses in boldness its uninhibited predecessors but, more astonishingly is written about men's not women's sexual troubles. Outlining the functions and disturbances of the prostate gland, Miss Davis combined the technique of Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Dix and the American Medical Association's Journal...
...likely to balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes it possible for us to conceive these desirable ends...