Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gay W. Seidman '78, one of three overseers elected from a divestment slate, introduced the motion from the floor, couching it in language that acknowledged the newly formed committee, which she had opposed earlier in the meeting...
...compare and contrast Howe and Vellucci on the issues. It's fair to say that Vellucci's a more liberal voter," Goldman said. He said Vellucci supports comparable worth pay for women, gay rights and strict gun control while Howe has not always done...
...Somerville representative said that years before Vellucci's freshman term, she had supported gay rights and the activities of Amnesty International, as well as human rights efforts in Northern Ireland. In addition, Howe said she has worked closely with unions and that she has had her picture taken with Elanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women...
...Gay, a scholar of the Enlightenment era, tends to view his subject as a direct descendant of 18th century atheists and rationalists like Voltaire and Diderot. Therefore it is with deepening irony that the reader discovers that by the 1920s, psychoanalysis had begun to resemble a religion. Freud's apostles begat apostates who in turn spawned heresies and a bemusing number of therapeutic sects, each claiming to have a piece of the true couch...
...judge from Gay's accounts, too much has been made of Freud's cocaine dependency. As a young man he used the drug to chase the blues, relax on social occasions and, as he wrote to his future bride, make himself feel like a "big wild man." The substance did cause him ego problems when another physician beat him to the journals with his findings on the pain-killing properties of coca. His own paper on the subject was well received, but as he wrote in an 1884 letter to his sister-in-law, "the cocaine business has indeed brought...