Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...section begins with three stories by Contributing Editor Virginia Adams, a veteran Behavior writer. One piece examines some new thinking about learning sex roles and describes the surprising case histories of children who have undergone sex change. Another is a report on British Biologist Alexander Comfort and his predictions for the future of unconventional sexual arrangements. The last article is a series of short communiques from the battle for equality between the sexes. One of these briefs makes clear that the contest is not always one-sided; a bank that had been providing free transportation to women employees found itself...
...Comfort. In spite of enduring contradictions, there is an overwhelming impression in Bulgaria of modest but widespread comfort, prosperity in the villages around the capital and impressive organization in agriculture. Sofia is striking for its many sumptuously planted parks, its wide-domed churches brightly lit at night and the yellow cobblestones that pave the main boulevards. City residents, proud of their distinctive cobblestones, have successfully persuaded the municipal authorities to abandon plans to replace them with asphalt. One woman journalist explained, "We couldn't let them tear up our streets," adding, "after all, they're paved in gold...
Many observers take it for granted that sexual "swinging" will never be more than a fringe phenomenon involving a few far-out types. Not so, suggests British Biologist Alexander Comfort. In the years to come, Comfort predicts, more and more couples may turn to group sex for satisfactions once sought only in traditional patterns of family living...
...Comfort, who outlines his views in the current issue of the magazine Center Report, last week detailed his vision of the future in an interview with TIME'S Los Angeles Correspondent Lois Armstrong. As he sees it, clues to what lies ahead can be discerned in the attitudes of young people. "They shy away from the idea of total self-surrender," Comfort observes. "They say, There must be a piece of myself for myself. It isn't that I don't love you, but I don't dig this symbiotic fusion.' " Just as many young...
...signals, "I'm Carol McEvoy, an interpreter. I'm using sign language to help those with impaired hearing understand this message from Western Air Lines." As an unseen announcer goes into his voice-over pitch, McEvoy's hands signal the message: "There is stretch-out comfort of first-class leg space at every seat." Scenes of passengers stretching out in flight materialize on a screen just over McEvoy's left shoulder. This word-sign and picture technique continues in the commercial-the first TV promotion aimed at breaking the silence barrier for the deaf...