Word: ferril
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the adventurer has deliberately removed himself from the stream of society, society is not always friendly toward him. Few hostile critics have gone so far as Denver Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, who was sure that "if a mountain persists as a challenge to a man over 26, it implies some psychic deficiency or sex frustration ... I am further convinced that the adult who feels under compulsion to lick formidable mountains invariably enjoys as unsatisfactory a love life as a lady harp player." The obverse of that notion is that sex itself is the real, perhaps the last great adventure...
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