Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Problem of Conscience. Sanchez openly courted Jeannette, parked his official black Cadillac limousine in front of her home so often that the neighbors got in the habit of gathering outside to wave at him as he left. Jokesters even started calling the area "Peyton Place." Yet, unlike many Puerto Rican men, Sanchez could not bring himself to conduct a covert affair. It was, he explained, "a problem of conscience. People say, 'You ought to hide the car.' But if it's something worthwhile and honest, how can you go underground? I felt I owed it to myself...
Dalton of the Young Dems will be glad to find he has company. MRA seems to make a habit of using organizations' names without permission, and worse. In the Jan. 17, 1962 issue of Christian Century, a liberal religious magazine, a member of the Easton, Penn., Human Relations Commission relates his run-in with MRA. The Commission agreed reluctantly to sponsor an MRA film called The Crowning Experience, based on the life of a Negro educator. It was all quite innocent until the MRA publicity began to flow: "[MRA] stated--erroneously and to our embarrassment--that we had sponsored...
...imply that a Playboy reader must be of slight intelligence, a TIME reader, not only intelligent but so sex-informed that he is no longer curious-although your ingenuous habit of juxtaposing a couple's marriage date and the birth date of their first child seems to indicate that you have at least a passing interest...
...that funny blank look in her eyes, as though a light had been switched off inside her head. "She just switches off," says Corin. "It's a very strange thing. She's done it as long as I can remember." But Vanessa has an explanation. "I have a bad habit of not giving much of myself," she says, "of saving myself up for work. To lose oneself in a role?that is what one lives...
...heroine is in agony. But her agony comes from loving, so she revels in it. Vadim plays up that perverseness. The woman has had a series of love affairs; she ought to be nonchalant about the habit by now. But no. She picks an impossible love, burns for him. Her insistence on extravagant loving is what Vadim is celebrating...