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...Attitudes and values about sexuality haven't changed as much as we think they have. Victorian notions of sexuality still have a powerful influence," says Allan M. Brandt, assistant professor of the history of science and medicine. Brandt studies the effects such attitudes have had in the past and applies his conclusions to the present, successfully bridging the gap from academia to public policy issues...
...pourri: "Hop-Frog," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amantillado," "The Raven," and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allan Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of the Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poeportion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors...
...Allan M. Brandt is an assistant professor of the History of Medicine and Science. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy at the Medical School and in the Department of the History of Science. He is the author of No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since...
Shortly before yesterday's conference, University attorneys delivered a thick folder of replacement documents to Evan T. Lawson, Jackson's lawyer. More papers will be turned over as the University is able to obtain them, Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan told the judge...
...authors quickly dominated the field. Their very names suggest creaking Victorian stairways, forbidden rooms and disembodied spirits: Montague Rhodes James, J.S. Le Fanu, Eden Phillpotts, Algernon Blackwood. In the U.S., an alcoholic and sickly journalist led readers down dark corridors that still echo in American and European fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was, wrote D.H. Lawrence, "an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul." He told of disintegrating bodies (The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar), accusatory objects (The Purloined Letter) and doomed homes (The Fall of the House of Usher...