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...mystery takes on a different hue for homosexuals, but remains a mystery nonetheless. Many can take their preference without a pang of remorse and guilt; they only have to fear the repression and condescension from a society that targets them for debasement. But many cannot evade the question of why they are what they are. Emotional trauma over the stark facts has always led a few to suicide; others have been instilled with a morbid sense of shame and self-hatred. Moral revisionists will no doubt blame such personal tragedies on the evil influence of society and public opinion...
When the Young Socialists recommended their chairman, Andrew Bevan, then age 24, as the Labor Party's National Youth Officer back in 1976, the hue and cry was immediate. London's Daily Mirror was quick to call him "Red Andy" and "a dangerous representative of Trotskyist infiltration." The Times editorialized that Bevan was a "subversive element" and likened his appointment to "soldiers under siege being asked suddenly to accept the command of one of the enemy." An array of Labor stalwarts, including Michael Foot and then Prime Minister James Callaghan, objected to Bevan's selection...
Cozza, dressed like a true Yalie in a crested blue jacket, an off-hue blue sweater and a pinstripe tie, glowed after The Game. He described Grieve's touchdown catch--the Elis' first pass of the day--as "a big play, a super big play. It couldn't have been bigger...
Other suits are of a more somber hue: > The right to the tapes. Many Watergate tapes were turned over to the special prosecutor in 1974, and those played at the cover-up trial may be heard by the public at the National Archives. Despite the courts' refusal to respect Nixon's claim that presidential privilege automatically shields other Oval Office conversations from disclosure, Nixon so far has managed to keep secret the 113 tape segments sought by demonstrators arrested during the 1971 May Day protests. Nixon's attorneys maintain that the conversations are harmless. The ex-President...
...subject of his book Black Like Me, 1961). He speaks of violent beatings and physical suffering, and then discards self-pity by quoting a friend's dying words: "Ask Griffin if he can top this." A former Ku Klux Klan executive finds himself organizing workers of every hue in a North Carolina union. "People say: 'That's an impossible dream. You sound like Martin Luther King' . . . I don't think it's an impossible dream. It's happened in my life." A high school dropout, once thought to be incorrigible, institutionalized many times...