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Word: sexuality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarded as one of the world's leading young geneticists, Lederberg is noted for his outstanding discoveries in bacterial genetics, including the finding of sexual multiplication in bacteria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nobel Award Winner Will Speak on Genes | 11/13/1958 | See Source »

...showed that at least one form of bacteria is capable of sexual reproduction and in 1948 demonstrated that the heredity of bacteria could be altered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nobel Award Winner Will Speak on Genes | 11/13/1958 | See Source »

...Naked and the Dead, in which Stripper Lili St. Cyr gets about halfway through her act before the cops raid the joint. (Article V, Section 1: "Dances suggesting sexual actions are . . . obscene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Decoded | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...called Rex "Fishbelly" Tucker, but so far as the story's essentials are concerned, his name might be Richard Wright. Fishbelly's father, an undertaker, once taught him an important truth as he buried the mutilated body of a young Negro who had accepted the sexual invitation of a white woman. Said Tyree Tucker: "One more black dream dead . . . a dream that can't come true." As Fishbelly sees it, growing up in the black belt of a small Mississippi city, every black man can dream, but the white world will see to it that the dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tract in Black & White | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert Humbert, involves young girls. As his boat approaches the island, he sees a girl of seven or so on the deck, and in his mind a hallucination forms in which the child becomes a sexual victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beware the Blob | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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