Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, a propagation of the notion that a novel trying to convey dullness must be dull. Sheer nightmare does not redeem a book any more than sheer polly-annaism. The Genet-Burroughs crowd, including such lesser sensationalists as John Rechy (City of Night) and Hubert Selby (Last Exit to Brooklyn), are not pornographers, if pornography is defined as arousing sexual excitement. These writers have created a pornography of nausea, which if anything has the opposite effect. They are thus the enemies of the hedonist almost more than the enemies of the moralist...
...Edward Davis, can delay the onset of such changes and diminish their impact. There is even a test-an adaptation of the familiar "Pap smear" for detecting uterine cancer-that indicates how much medication a woman might need. "Estrogens are not the fountain of youth," added Brooklyn's Dr. Henry S. Acken Jr., "but they may be the springs that feed the fountain...
Paul A. Cantor, English, of Lowell House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Irving R. Epstein, chemistry and physics, of Dunster House and Flushing, N.Y.; William P. Frerking, philosophy, of Quincy House and St. Louis, Mo.; Richard N. Lyons, mathematics, of Adams House and New York City: Mare E. Saperatein, English, of Leverett House and Malverne. N.Y.; Barry M. Simon, physics, of Winthrop House and Brooklyn. N.Y.: Peter H. Wagschal, social relations, of Lowell House and Denver Colo.: William F. Weld, classics, of Adams House and Smithtown...
...Angeles fans were ready to forgive and forget. So what if the Dodgers tied for sixth place last year. That was a fluke. Now Johnny Podres was fogging in fastballs the way he used to in the old Brooklyn days. Leftfielder Tommy Davis, whose batting average plummeted to .275 last year, was hitting like Babe Ruth in the Grapefruit League. Maury Wills was stealing every base in sight, tied down or not. And how about Sandy Koufax? "My arm feels perfect," proclaimed Lefthander Koufax, who celebrated by pitching two complete games and striking out 15. Bookmakers installed the Dodgers...
Married. Joseph Curran, 59, boss of the 62,000-member National Maritime Union; and Florence B. Stetler, 47, Florida divorcee and marine-equipment sales executive; both for the second time (his first wife died in 1963); in a civil ceremony; in Brooklyn...