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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow Yippies in the '60s he would warn: "Don't trust anyone over 30." Fortunately, elders like Jerry Rubin can now be trusted because at 39 he has lots more advice and counsel to give. He is planning a School for Living, featuring seminars in male sexuality, courtship, friendship and how to be successful. To teach beside him, he has a young partner: Mimi Leonard, 28, whom he plans to marry in December, "a romantic time of year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 19, 1977 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...Ring, Yardley has attempted to portray Lardner largely through his work. He offers comments which are essential to providing an understanding of the era. Also included, however, is a section on Lardner's courtship with his future wife, Ellis. Because Lardner was traveling with the White Sox throughout his courtship, he and Ellis rarely saw one another. They wrote each other constantly, however, and the letters reveal Ring's charm and innocence. At a later point in their relationship, Ring has been looking for an apartment for the soon to be married couple. He writes Ellis, describing a place...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Ring Remembered | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...Still males have one overpowering disadvantage-they can never be sure that the offspring are their own. A cuckolded male is a biological loser, tricked into investing his time and energy in another male's genes. Thus sexual jealousy evolved among monogamous males as an adaptation. So did courtship rituals. By monopolizing a female's time, but not copulating, a courting male waits long enough to make certain that the female is not already pregnant. Among ring doves, a male turns from wooing to aggression if the female responds to his courtship too soon; that is a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sociobiology and Sex | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...believers. His fasting, like that of the priest in Bresson's film, makes him weaker and weaker; but instead of succumbing to tuberculosis, he develops amnesia. There the parallels end. The rest of the movie carries him through an idyllic romance with a flower-child of the neighborhood--a courtship full of walks through the fields and accompanied by soupy music, much like the middle third of Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Just as they consumate their love, however, he recovers his memory. He abandons her for his celibate priesthood and she dies of a broken heart. In the Emile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

...Proteus and Silvia. There are the two masters and the two servants, each couple bound in friendship though capable of deceit. And then there's the dog Crab, who qualifies for both categories. The mutt is not only ungrateful for the constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies the courtship between Launce's master (Proteus) constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies the courtship between Launce's master (Proteus) and Julia, prompting a mortified reproach from the ever-patient Launce: "Did not I bid thee still mark me, and do as I do? When didst thou see me heave...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cuanto Me Gusta | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

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