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...This is also manifest in the domain of sex education, where our negativism is notorious. We start early to speak obscurely of sexual prohibitions but impart very little legitimate positive information to the child. We ignore the fact that, unlike brute animals whose sex behavior is largely instinctual, the rational animal's sex practices are learned. . . . Catholics have much to learn from Freudians regarding sex development and the capital importance of early sexual experiences. . . . Indeed, Freudians can teach much regarding the entire role of family figures in the upbringing of a child, regarding the ideal father, mother, brother...
...five-to-one majority would place Radcliffe in the strongest position, numerically at least, to destroy this threatening encroachment of their relatively safe domain. But whether 30 'Cliffedwellers can do more than a smaller but well-organized 23-woman Wellesley force remains to be seen. In any case, it looks like a close, thing...
...problem of bringing a great industry awake to its possibilities. Among them is Charles Sieppmann. In his book, "Radio's Second Chance," he reminds us that following the wild wave length-pirating days of the 1920's the air was, at the request of the exhausted stations, declared public domain, and licensing made a function of the Federal Communications Commission. This means that the American people are "sleeping partners in the great enterprise of radio" and that through the judicious granting of licenses to the new Frequency Modulation stations the FCC can force radio to approximate standards...
Musical grave-robbing had been a flourishing trade even before Our Love (from the Romeo and Juliet overture) put Tchaikovsky on the jukeboxes. And nothing could be done about it by the shades of Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Chopin; their works were in the public domain. But supposedly the melodious music of Italy's Giacomo (La Bohème) Puccini, who died in 1924, was still safe...
Mike never moulded any policy here. But roaming his Soldiers Field domain, and particularly the Briggs Cage and Stadium environs, he added a sort of "most unforgettable character" dignity to the unromantic job of groundskeeper. Clad in blue dungarees with long blue sleeves sticking out, rubbers over his shoes and an old golfing cap perched on a white thatch, he moved around mostly in the background...