Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population (13% of the males, 5% of the females). Of these, according to gay leaders, perhaps only 1% or so are out of the closet. The rest are still known as homosexuals only to themselves and perhaps a few trusted friends. Until a decade ago, they had nothing in common but their sexual orientation and fear of society's contempt...
...usually do not have as much money as gay males, who are often successful in the straight world. Nor do homosexual men usually have children to support, as do a fair number of lesbians who have finally admitted their sexual orientation. Many female homosexuals think they have less in common with gay men than with heterosexual feminists, who have now largely accepted them after some early misgivings...
...Heterosexual sex fantasies are common among homosexuals, mirroring the homosexual fantasies occasionally indulged in by many heterosexuals...
...matrimonial standards Wills is practically a radical. His ideas on love and the governing of men are also a departure from the customary lines. Wills' starting point is St. Augustine: "A people is a gathering of many rational individuals united by accord on loved things held in common." What rational individuals love best is peace. It is, says Wills, "the very soul of society" and "the gift of the politicians...
...likely to depart too markedly from that agreed-on area of thinking. If he were startlingly novel in his approach, liable to strike off on his own, capable of bold invention, unafraid of its consequences, only an idiot would ask him to represent the mass of common...