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Like many other students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Herman Marshall straps on his helmet each morning and bikes the four miles from his apartment in Medford to the Astrophysics lab. But within the intangible institution of GSAS--which has a scattered student body, a sporadic academic calendar and few buildings of its own--Herman Marshall, as president of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), has a clearly defined role...
...fever can strike anyone, anywhere. Betty Talmadge, ex-wife of Georgia's former Senator Herman Talmadge-and author of an excellent cookbook, How to Cook a Pig-has been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection...
FATHER DAUGHTER INCEST documents the impact of incest on the female victims Excerpts from the conversations of 40 women who talked with Dr. Herman and her associates piece together the shared experience of brutality. Ten percent of the women had father who began imposing sexual demands before the girls were five years old. The legacy of their abuse--inevitably remaining with them for life, includes suicidal tendencies, depression promiscuity, alcohol and drug abuse, the utter debasement of self-image, and a host of other pathologies...
...Herman suggests changing the way incest is perceived as the first step towards making many needed reforms. Incest laws should alter the rules of procedure, she says, since eyewitness are obviously rare. Abused children usually remain under their father's roof (and power) while the father is being tried. Mothers and daughters, estranged in incestuous families, must be re-united. Therapists must recognize the cultural taboos surrounding incest and develop new methods of treating victims...
...neglect were first exposed as widespread in America agencies and education programs were set up to begin dealing with an overlooked tragedy. From 1976 to 1977, the number of cases reported to the National Study of Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting went up 23 percent, from 412.927 to 507.494. Herman proposes that we again educate ourselves and prepare to cope with-the horror of incest. Her book is the first step in the process...