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Such a man might be presumed to be in dire need of psychiatric help. Instead, he gave sexual counsel to millions, for H. E. was Henry Havelock Ellis, the most renowned sexologist of the English-speaking world...
...civilised man or woman who cannot win some enjoyment from this book," wrote Havelock Ellis about Casanova's Memoirs, "there must be something unwholesome and abnormal-something corrupt at the core." Writing in the Victorian era, Scientist Ellis (Psychology of Sex) idolized Casanova as a free spirit, a man who had the courage to live life fully, and as a shining example of "adjustment"-for Casanova adapted himself so easily to his own desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that...
...with the beautiful nun who is her French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed out, the same women appear again and again in the Memoirs; it is perhaps a mark of the true Casanova that he can stay friends with his former mistresses...
...Negroes have never been enrolled before. Elsewhere in the South, there was progress, however cautious: ¶ Florida's first desegregated school will be Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School, where four Negro pupils have been told to report this fall. ¶ The North Carolina tidewater town of Havelock, possibly forestalling withdrawal of U.S. aid for its overcrowded white schools, decided to admit the children of Negro marines serving at nearby Cherry Point airbase to white schools. ¶ Two federal court orders for the submission of desegregation plans opened the possibility of desegregation in the South...
...trustees include: Charles A. Coolidge of Belmont, Mrs. John M. Bullitt of Cambridge, Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, Mrs. Douglass D. Bond of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Mrs. Albert K. Mitchell of Albert, New Mexico...