Word: hugh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ushering a reluctant, grudging chastity back into fashion. Eight years ago, Alex Comfort, the expansive apostle of coitus, could say of sex: "There is nothing to be afraid of, and never was." Now, in the Age of Herpes, Playboy employees jokingly refer to the swimming facilities at Hugh Hefner's Los Angeles mansion as "the herpes pool." A Manhattan resident who had always longed to disport himself at a sexual playpen called Plato's Retreat now says he will go only if he can wear a full-length wet suit. Flesh Merchant Al Goldstein, editor of Screw magazine, says glumly...
...odor of death hangs heavy over Ezra Pound's garden in Rapallo, Italy, during the fateful March of 1945. As he awaits the advance of the U.S. Army and his arrest for making treasonous broadcasts, the mad poet bids a venomous farewell to "poor old Hugh Selwyn Mauberley-arse-eyed traitor to the whole world!" Indeed, the fleeing Mauberley presents a threat to both Axis and Allies: he has seen atrocities on both sides and he is ready to bear witness...
...Hugh Sloan Jr., 41, Haldeman aide and treasurer of Nixon re-election committee who disclosed Liddy's withdrawal of campaign funds for Watergate snooping, cooperated with investigators. Now president of Budd Canada, branch of car-and truck-frame company. "There was a lot of personal tragedy involved," he says of Watergate. "It created a learning experience that one might not have chosen, but that certainly was a valuable...
...DIED. Hugh Beaumont, 73, journeyman Hollywood actor whose name was etched into the public consciousness through the longevity of a TV hit series, when for 234 half-hour performances in the 1950s and '60s he was Ward Cleaver, the All-American suburban father on the still repeated Leave It to Beaver; of an apparent heart attack; during a visit to Munich, West Germany...
Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, whose workload dips when there are no students around, said he plans to finish Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy along with some Hugh Trevor-Roper history of 17th century England. For others he proposes reading...