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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellowship when the Harvard Young Dems convened last month for general elections. The YD's seemed ready to fold, and the members were looking for scapegoats. As an influence on student politics the club had clearly failed. But several candidates thought it still had a role to play in adult political campaigns throughout Massachusetts...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Revival Politics | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

Often our graduate students arrive already married, looking not for the traditional room in a dormitory but for a home for their families. Having emerged in so many ways into fully developed adult status, they are understandably quick to feel demeaned by anything that puts them back into more juvenile roles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wolff Report: Even Graduate Students Feel Neglected and Lonely | 3/10/1969 | See Source »

...line once wrote, "is always something that's true; that is why it's nearly always sad and repulsive to look at." Céline had ample opportunity to contemplate the human body in full adversity, for he was a doctor and he spent much of his adult life in a run-down Parisian suburb as one of those slum saints who cure what is curable in the poor for little or no pay. Partly as a result, he viewed the body of modern society with unparalleled revulsion and no hope. The only cure for life, he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Savonarola of the Slums | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, the results were indifferent. A later test, using direct, full-page ads in Atlanta and upstate New York papers, as well as more colorful packaging, brought an enthusiastic response. According to Ed Vi-mond, president of Warner-Lambert's products division, that test showed that "80% of adult women are interested in purchasing such a deodorant." Alberto-Culver and its agency, N. W. Ayer, advertise FDS on TV as well as in print. The media have shown some queasiness over the Pristeen ads. LIFE turned them down, but later relented; by then Pristeen had gone elsewhere. The magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Not Modest, Because | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...adult, Portnoy makes his most strenuous escape attempt with the aid of the Monkey, a hypererotic fashion model from the impoverished hills of West Virginia who is the fulfillment of Portnoy's steamiest adolescent sex fantasies. The Monkey business ends in a frenzied bedroom burlesque in Rome, made the merrier by the participation of an Italian prostitute. Comments Portnoy: "I can best describe the state I sub sequently entered as one of unrelieved busy-ness." But instead of solving his problem, the Monkey is just another source of shame. She wants Alex's social respectability while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sex Novel of the Absurd | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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