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...happened in Virginia is that Holton, rallying the state G.O.P. from long hibernation, is making a spirited attempt to take over the governorship from Democrat Albertis S. Harrison Jr., who is barred by state law from succeeding himself. Though Helton's official opponent is Lieutenant Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., 50, his most potent adversary is U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, 78, the aged boss and personification of Virginia politics...
...Some couples who go steady are extremely idealistic," says Mrs. Sherrill Godwin, a counselor at Griffith High School just outside Winston-Salem. "That is why early marriages occur if she should get pregnant-from the idealism." Yet rural life is changing rapidly. Down on the farm, one time-honored way of learning about sex, watching the animals, is disappearing. "Today the animals are artificially inseminated," observes Mrs. Joseph Rademacher of Peotone, 111. (pop. 3,300). mother of four sons, including teenagers Bob, 16, and Bill, 14. "So I felt I should answer their questions rather than have some outsider tell...
Rosenberg excavates two late eighteenth century novels, Lewis' The Monk and Godwin's St. Leon, which portray the isolated Jew as black magician, and traces their lineage from Cartaphilus to DuMaurier's Svengali. In Trilby "the myths of Judas and of Cartaphilus met in the figure of a Victorian bogey-hypnotist...
Mary Shelley came by her headstrong ways naturally. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a brilliant champion of women's rights and social revolution. Her father, William Godwin, was also one of the morning stars of reason and reform in the last years of the 18th century. Both advocated free love and reluctantly ignored their teaching to marry just five months before their daughter's birth. Yet from the day of her elopement, Mary Shelley suffered continual persecution not only from Shelley's family, but also from her own father, whose contempt for convention stopped abruptly...
...circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary's father; William Godwin's outraged rebel's respectability never stopped him from sponging on Shelley...