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...book racks are filled with volumes of confession and revenge. People rush to destroy their own privacy, possibly judging that loneliness is worse. In the past ten or twelve years, everything has tumbled out of the closet in a heap. Some homosexuals parade themselves like walking billboards, the placement of the keys and handkerchiefs in their back pockets acting as a semaphore to signal the specific secrets of their sexual tastes...
Much has been said this week about Jack Youngblood's willingness to play on a broken ankle in the Super Bowl and Jack Tatum's willingness to injure wide receivers. Yet, until Tatum's book came out of the closet, violence in pro hockey occupied a pre-eminent place in sports fans' minds while violence in pro football seemed beyond reproach--or at least, "part of the game...
Sheng Bin Chiu '79, dorm crew supervisor at the time the letters were discovered in the closet of a Winthrop House room, remembered handing the letters to Winthrop House Superintendent Ben Bartie on the last day of the clean-up in June. Bartie said he does not remember receiving the letters...
...house has no study or office, but at least it has adequate closet space. There is a fur and jewels safe, and plenty of drawers for her status jeans (which come with this warning: "for tight-fitting fashions, especially pants, ask an adult for some baby powder and rub it on doll's legs before slipping on clothes.") There are even hangers for superstar Barbie's feather boa and disco dresses...
...parallels the one that is used to justify sex education courses-talk about a subject that has been nearly taboo, and therefore mysterious and frightening, and everybody will probably feel better. One of the standard texts, by Gene Stanford and Deborah Perry, is even called Death Out of the Closet. The gifted fourth-and fifth-graders, mostly with IQs above 125, who make up Mrs. Shaak's little flock are simply dragging the dark angel into the Florida sunlight and making death almost ordinary...