Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YOURSELF OFF FROM HALF of humanity?" These words were spoken by a Harvard junior who is young, intelligent--and gay. He is part of a growing organization that is gaining acceptance and understanding for homosexuals at Harvard University. The Harvard Gay Students Association, (H.G.S.A.) was started by Gene Hightower in 1970, when he was a sophomore at Harvard. Hightower, a handsome black with a dashing moustache, transferred to Harvard in 1970 from a university in California. "I was surprised to find that there was no gay student organization here at Harvard. I came from California where there...
TIME has learned of other such devious tactics during the campaign. Charles Colson, who once said that he would "walk over my own grandmother" to help Nixon, recruited young men to pose as Gay Liberationists and wear large George McGovern buttons at rallies for the Democratic candidate, thus linking McGovern with that cause...
This is the territory he calls art brut-"raw art." Its landscape includes the gay scribblings of children, the darker grotesqueries of madmen's art and the limitless repertory of graffiti and folk images-naive, threatening, bizarre or just plain corny-that lies between...
...could be the name of an infectious disease, a moss lichen or a law-school seminar. Reggae (pronounced ray-gay) is the local jargon of Jamaicans distinguishing "regular" rhythm from calypso. To millions of fans, the lilting pop rock with the spicy island beat is the Caribbean's most captivating musical export since steel bands...
...codified, the materials and designs were not. Sheet silver cards appeared in Augsburg at the turn of the 17th century, made for Orthodox Jews whose religious laws forbade them to touch pasteboard decks at Passover. Silk and cotton or plaited straw were inlaid into the cards to reproduce gay theatrical costumes in their original fabric, like the 17th century Pulcinello opposite. The superb min-chiate (or tarot) cards done in the 15th century by Bonifacio Bembo for Filippo Visconti, Duke of Milan, are so elaborate in their detailed painting, embossment and gilding that they could seldom, if ever, have been...