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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having just read the interesting Essay on sex education in the U.S. [June 9], I cannot suppress an ironical snigger at the spectacle of a highly rational society indulging in such magical thinking as to suppose that, having drawn a diagram of a tiger on the blackboard, the teacher may safely invite children to stroke the nice "pussycat" roaming in the jungle. Sex is probably the most powerful, and certainly the most mysterious, of the instincts, and cannot be tamed by a textbook...
...excellent Essay "On Teaching Children About Sex" [June 9] leaves out one important point, the responsibility of every potential parent to the "innocent conceptus." Let there be taught a bill of rights for every newborn child: the right 1) to be legitimate; 2) to inherit from both parents a genetic endowment of reasonably good mental and physical health; 3) to be nourished in the uterus by a mother who has not had a damaging illness such as rubella in early pregnancy or taken damaging drugs; 4) to be fed, clothed and protected from birth through adolescence; 5) to be wanted...
Eastman achieves the ultimate in bad taste in his essay on Jesus, whose strictures against fornication, he suggests, "must have been sustained by floridly passionate friendships among men." Says Eastman: "The picture of Jesus and his 12 male companions, one of them spoken of as 'the beloved disciple,' wandering about Palestine together, must ultimately provoke the interest of our all-inquiring psychologists." So would this book, if it were worth the trouble...
...Your Essay on "The Golden Age of Sport" [June 2] is an excellent analysis of sport in the 1960s. The magic eye of the TV camera has had its impact in no uncertain fashion, and I hope it will be there to foot the bill and thrill the world for many years to come...
...Your Essay is a lot of baloney. Today's sport stars have not, as you claim, eclipsed the great stars of the 1920s. For example, Jim Thorpe could outkick any kicker today. No batter today in the big leagues can even make a good sacrifice bunt. Very few pitchers today can go nine innings, and no pitcher today makes a patch on Dizzy Dean's or Satchel Paige's pants...