Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years of their lives. A conservative estimate of those who are exclusively homosexual today is 5 million. The more political of the new homosexuals like to consider themselves a minority group like the blacks and claim that they number 20 million, most of them, of course, still "in the closet...
Militant gays also pose dilemmas for other homosexuals because they urge them to "come out of the closet" in order to strengthen the movement. "Other minorities have everything to gain by demanding their rights," says one anonymous oil company executive. "We have everything to lose." Sometimes the most ardent anti-gays are actually closet homosexuals. They early learn the tricks of controlling facial reactions, feigning interest in the opposite sex, learning to laugh at "fag" jokes to keep their cover...
Some adults have suffered harsh treatment at the hands of kidnapers as well, and undergone long, lonely bouts of uncertainty over what was to become of them. Jack Teich, a Brooklyn businessman, was chained in a closet for a week last year until his family paid $750,000 for his release. The kidnapers are still being sought...
...approach to a tuberculosis sanatorium he had designed in 1929 at Paimio, in southern Finland's pine forests. Aalto considered how each occupant, from the director on down, not only would use the building but also might feel about it. The janitor, he decided, should have his own closet, not just an impersonal clothes hook. When it came to the hospital rooms, Aalto put himself in the place of the patients. The result: designs for windows that would admit fresh air but not drafts, wash basins that would not splash, and chairs of resilient wood so that convalescents would...
Sooner or later, quite possibly by the end of this year, Colby seems certain to be asked to leave-a fate that he accepts philosophically. Says one White House aide: "He inherited all the skeletons in the closet and issued all the corrective memoranda, but that's not going to make him any less expendable. He should be allowed to see the investigation through, then retire with honor...