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...BLATANT HOMOSEXUAL. Chaucer's Pardoner in The Canterbury Tales had a voice "small as a goat's. He had no beard nor ever would have, his face was as smooth as if lately shaven; I trow he were a mare or a gelding." This is the eunuch-like caricature of" femininity that most people associate with homosexuality. In the 1960s he may be the catty hairdresser or the lisping, limp-wristed interior decorator. His lesbian counterpart is the "butch," the girl who is aggressively masculine to the point of trying to look like a man. Blatants also include "leather boys...
Small-town housewives and Wall Street lawyers, college presidents and politicians, veteran demonstrators and people who have never made the "V" sign of the peace movement?thousands of Americans who have never thought to grow a beard, don a hippie headband or burn a draft card?planned to turn out on M-day to register their dismay and frustration over Viet Nam. Yes terday's Vietniks are determined to grow into tomorrow's majority...
...Fake Beard...
...Wearing a heavy jacket and sporting a fake beard, Rudd mingled with the crowd, most of whom did not know who he was until he was arrested. Most of the Weathermen were helmet less and concealed their clubs and pipes under their jackets while assembling...
...McHarg is a 48-year-old landscape architect who delights conservationists with eloquent speeches that blast man the polluter as "a blind, witless, lowbrow, anthropocentric clod." With his Scottish burr, fierce beard and piercing eyes, McHarg is a cross between Jeremiah and a kind of male Rachel Carson. He is not only a symbol of rising anger at environmental abuses, but a successful practitioner of the hard art of stopping those abuses. In his new book, Design with Nature, which Lewis Mumford calls "a vision of organic exuberance and human delight," McHarg clearly shows that the main obstacle to saving...