Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that later seemed symbolic of some of his tales. His vivid older sister Elizabeth, who seemed the genius of the family, troubled his imagination. "His early stories," Cantwell observes, "deal often with the rather mortifying masculine experience of encountering women whose sexual experience is greater than...
Madeira & Marriage. At Bowdoin College Hawthorne solemnly bet his friend Jonathan Cilley a barrel of Madeira wine that he, Hawthorne, would be unmarried twelve years later. He won the bet. For a modern biographer it is almost superfluous to note the sexual distrust, as well as the calculation, in this resolve. What is more important is the lucid analysis, through fiction, that Hawthorne gave to such matters (and indeed to his whole Puritan background) in the years that followed...
...prosecutors has made public his notes since the reduction of her sentence. He described her as depraved and a Nazi sadist. Because of the limitations of time only a small part of the evidence against her was presented at the trial. No mention was made of her sexual depravity which could be described only as maniacal. She escaped the death penalty because she conceived an illegitimate child during her internment. She is an incredibly amoral woman...
...good people are united in their hatred of oppression and their faith in social progress. Their eccentricities and personal misconduct (especially of a sexual nature) are viewed indulgently, so long as they retain this essential faith. On the other hand, the slightest expression of intolerance on the part of a captain of industry is regarded as incipient Fascism...
...Guidance Clinic presented to the International Congress on Mental Health (see above), a "little Kinsey Report" based on a study of 1,000 married couples. Some of the findings : more than half had "basic sex problems"; one-fourth showed "gross sex ignorance"; only 25 had read a book of sexual instruction; almost one-third of the wives were unsatisfied sexually...