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...Husband: "Who was it, Finkelstein?" Wife: "No." "Cohen?" "No." "Shapiro?" "No." "What's the matter-none of my friends are good enough for you?" Concludes Legman: "In the relationship with the other man that is crucial to adultery, it is the triumph over him, rather than the sexual conquest of his wife, that is understood to be the adulterer's real thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex: The Humor of Hostility | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...vast technological enterprise than to establish brotherhood on a city block. Yet as man has conquered the seas, the air and other natural obstacles, he has also at each stage, in a small way, conquered part of himself. Therein lies the hope and the ultimate promise of his latest conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: OF REVOLUTION AND THE MOON | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...name is an acronym derived from the Arabic words Harakat al Tahrir al-Falastin, or Movement for the Liberation of Palestine. Its initials, H.T.F., form the Arabic word for death. They are ingeniously reversible to F.T.H., pronounced "faht," meaning conquest -hence El Fatah or, as it is less commonly spelled, El Fateh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GUERRILLA THREAT IN THE MIDDLE EAST | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Another squeaker. Rutgers has already started its season in a winning way, rolling over Lafayette, and Princeton usually has trouble adjusting to its unique single wing attack. But most of the Tigers are veterans and they can already sense an Ivy title this early in the season A Princeton conquest...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Reluctant Prognosticator Sees Crimson by Safety | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

...sexual gratification, but "conquest and degradation of the victim," contends the report, "is the primary goal of the sexual aggressor." The attacks seem to be expressions of the same anger that caused the prisoners' original crimes. In general, the attackers tend to be the huskier, more violent criminals who are unable otherwise to achieve masculine pride. They do not think of themselves as homosexuals, believing that they are manly as long as they are the partner who "is aggressive and penetrates." The aggression also has racial overtones. Though Negroes constitute 80% of the prison population, more than half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: Catalogue of Savagery | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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