Word: homo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While taking peyote, Weston started having homo-sexual fantasies, which, after he quit the drug, disappeared. "But I am very glad that I had this experience for it has taught me to understand homosexuals a little better. It has also taught me why Freud was so fond of quoting the old proverb, 'Nothing human is alien to me.' "Before Weston finishes, he manages to construe a few more turgid moralisms for readers in the "square world...
...real fear when he speaks of responsibility. But he shrugs his shoulders. It is a teacher's responsibility to help the student towards maturity, to "wait for" it before enticing him into bed. Adult homosexuality 18 a rough-go. Once initiated, a young person tends to remain homo-or bi-sexual, or returns to heterosexual activity long bearing the guilt and anxiety (however irrational) of his youthful experience. Neither consequence is happy; neither justifies Goodman's fling...
...permits men to stay under water for considerable periods, but it involves a lot of expensive and bothersome apparatus. A better system, says Cousteau, would be to provide man with artificial "gills" through which his blood could flow and pick up oxygen. Even better would be a true Homo aquaticus, a fishman able to get his oxygen directly from the water as the fish...
...would like to commend you for your article [July 12] on Martin Buber. I feel that your words on the subtly profound philosophy of Buber, indicating that his life's thought might have a definite, here-and-now influence on the chances of Homo sapiens' continuing existence this side of holocaust, were complete, lucid, and maybe even eloquent...
...Houk was re-tooling the New York pitching staff into its best shape in recent years, other parts of the Yankee games developed fortuitously. Roger Maris, batting .261 when Mantle departed, began to take Mickey's place as a reliable power hitter. Maris is now hitting .299, with 17 homo runs, and has won numerous games with crucial extra-base hits...