Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were never put aside for endowment. Hutchins gave the up to 20 resident fellows-many of whom were often absent from the center-annual stipends of as much as $35,000 each, and visiting scholars were boarded in luxury at the Santa Barbara Biltmore. Says Senior Fellow Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, "Hutchins may have set out to study democratic institutions, but he ran this place like a Byzantine harem...
...middle of the night and as he walked up the stairs a fight would begin between what he called his will and his imagination. Clarke said that his will and his imagination. Clarke said that his will usually won out, that he would return to the comfort of his sheets. And this same kind of tension can be seen in his collected poems. The dark fiery imagination of his early and final poems conflict with his middle works, the secure defensive posture of his satires--an appropriate conflict for Yeats's legitimate heir...
...rejuvenating the wedded bliss of a couple very high in the English establishment, Goggins is rewarded with a title, an honorary degree from Oxford, and enough sex-education projects to make him rich for life. Oddly, something very like this improbable conclusion has happened to Goggins' creator-Alex Comfort, 55, a writer-biologist-philosopher of some note, whose useful work on the aging process was carried out in modest obscurity until he unleashed The Joy of Sex and More Joy (TIME, Oct. 7) upon the do-it-by-the-book decade. Odder still, Comfort published Come Out to Play...
Fruit Flies. "The book," says Comfort, sounding more and more like a sociologist, "started to be simply a comic novel. I think now it was the manifesto of which The Joy of Sex commences the implementation." To have read Come Out to Play is like having witnessed an apple fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head: a ho-hum incident at the time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before...
Time has been considerably kinder to Comfort's ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray