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...company with most of the new sociologists, Horowitz is bent on redefining the traditionally accepted symptoms of social deviance: divorce, homosexuality, crime and revolution. In a white-dominated society, for that matter, a man can be labeled deviant just because he is black. "But how do we know what is and is not deviant?" asks Horowitz. "When 41% of all marriages end in divorce, for example, must we still regard divorce as a social problem?" Instead of asking the question, "What went wrong with the marriage?" he suggests, the sociologist should ask: "What's wrong with the institution...
...Golda Meir, the Premier of a tiny country still bent on peace despite the threats of destruction all round...
Meanwhile, Mr. Stack fed me statistics. 7600 members. Lunch served to 700 to 800 daily. Liquor inventory of $40,000, including 75 varieties of wine. 1000 pop-overs baked each day. 250 squash-players per month. I asked if I could see the squash courts. Mr. Stack bent down and replied in a quiet voice that it wouldn't be possible for me to go upstairs because the men would be in their... um... you know, birthday suits...
TURNING to activists, Blaine attributed a large measure of their frustration to "the relatively permissive upbringing to which [they] have been subjected . . . Inconsistency and softness . . . results in the . . . belief that authority can be bent or gotten around. It is infuriating to meet a stone wall when one had expected . . . a soft hedge...
...honesty, some who are not so perverted). all of whom are responding to a series of titillating newspaper classifieds. The evening's most straight-forward stretch of comedy. it is probably also the evening's most entertaining bit. From Eric Davin's fag to Sharon Klurifs orgy-bent Flushing housewife, the cast spends much of its time variously undressed but never disconcerted. (Save that role for the audience...