Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange fashion one of the most intense statements of masculine potency on film. While Genet assaults his audience with one or another shocking perversion, he is also telling them that abnormality does not, in the last analysis, exist and sexual perversion, regardless of its nature, is as divine a form of love as those more commonly sanctioned...
...little well-earned rest -perhaps a two-week vacation. Tricot rang back after noon with a message from De Gaulle. It was too late; the general had already made up his mind. In fact, he had called in Couve after dinner the night before to tell him to form a government...
...another seven months, yet about half of its 80,000 words have already been quoted by four national publications. And pretty lively they are too: explicitly detailing Portnoy's super sex life from toilet training through masturbation and on to intercourse, intercourse, intercourse, all told in the form of monologues delivered by a Jewish boy to his psychoanalyst. With that kind of copy and more to come, no wonder Random House has given Roth a $250,000 advance for the book and Bantam $350,000 for paperback rights. With movies, foreign translation and the rest, poor Portnoy ought...
...point of the first conference in Jerusalem of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, an organization of Reform and Liberal congregations with a combined membership of 1,100,000 (nearly 90% in the U.S. and Canada). The Union hopes eventually to break Orthodoxy's monopoly as the single form of Judaism recognized in the Jewish homeland...
...from the Gulf of Tonkin, 78 years ago. His father was a celebrated scholar and minor official-following the mandarin tradition-in the imperial puppet government. He was fired because the French suspected him of "patriotic" sympathies. Embittered, he used to declare that "being a mandarin is the ultimate form of slavery." He went on to eke out an existence as a nomadic marketplace storyteller, scribe and sometime bonesetter, but he somehow had contrived to send his son to schools in Hue and Saigon. At the age of 21, Ho signed on as a mess boy on a France-bound...