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...time this past fall was I appalled or embarassed by the material in Biology 7b. I sometimes think that women who consider themselves activist feminists feel it a solemn duty to eradicate from their surroundings all things which they view as sexist. Jokes about sex are forbidden, especially in lecture, and even straight physiological information about the functioning of sexual organs is subject to criticism. It was very clear that some of the negative comments made about lecturers in Biology 7b were motivated out of prudery, under the guise of feminism...
Like hundreds of thousands of less famous Roman Catholics, New York's Governor Hugh Carey has a divorce problem. He is forbidden to take Communion because he is married to a divorced wom an, glamorous Greek Orthodox Million aire Evangeline Gouletas, who has now been married four times. His church does not recognize divorce at all. Her church does recognize divorce, for numerous rea sons, but allows only two per person...
...people who support a "Human Life Amendment" are anti-life. A young girl, whose future lies ahead of her, or a 40-year-old grandmother should not have to have her life destroyed because of rape or incest, nor should she be forbidden to do something about...
Wallace refused all advertisements until 1955, when he lifted the ban rather than raise the price of subscriptions. Liquor ads were not accepted until 1979, and cigarette ads are still forbidden; In all he did, his wife, whose father was also a Presbyterian minister, was his support and his prod, and her influence was almost as great as his. In the early days, he was so timid that she often had to go to meetings with him. "Wally is the genius, all right," said a friend, "but Lila unwrapped him." He himself called her his "pillar of strength...
Whether he wanted to or not, Al Haig has got himself into the same game. But he has added some new dimensions. He confronted a President in public, a heretofore forbidden gambit in power survival. Then he brushed aside another old maxim: if you have to claim pre-eminence publicly, you have already lost it. In the past, such pronouncements have often been the point of no return down the slippery slope toward the premature opportunity to go back to high pay, lush fringe benefits and absolute authority in the old firm. The odd thing is that when it happens...