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THORSTEIN VEBLEN in his The Theory of the Leisure Class says that the status of women is the best index of a society's values. Simone de Beauvoir plugs the status of old people into the same thesis. On this basis she condemns all contemporary societies by virtue of the maladjustment...
Freud asserted the sexuality of children, Simone de Beauvoir asserts the sexuality of the old. Sexuality, she says, is the index of energy, curiosity and life force in a human being. When sexuality falls off, the old person either has death in life or dies. Where women remain sexually capable to the end of their lives, men generally lose their ability to sustain an erection. Men, in effect, can never resolve their castration complex; castration is a reality they must expect. Old age is a defeat in sexual terms...
...November. That makes Miss Holtzman's victory no less dramatic. She beat Celler at what was once his own game: an oldfashioned, hand-pumping, doorbell-ringing street campaign, aided by a determined group of volunteers. What is more, she beat him in a district that has a high index of elderly voters...
Cambridge's crime rate has climbed steadily for the past ten years. Last year, the city had the nation's highest crime index for an urban area its size, according to the FBI. Most of these were crimes against properly, rather than crimes of violence, with break-ins and auto thefts predominating...
...most important index to music in Boston is in the weekly papers. Pick up a copy of the Phoenix or Boston After Dark and look at their listings. They're also responsible for some fine rock criticism. Landau's work in the Phoenix is always literate, and nearly always insightful, though he tends to take himself a bit seriously at times. For my quarter, the best rock writing in town is from Ben Gerson in Boston After Dark. He's literate and insightful, with the added advantage of being readable. There'll be regular rock reviews and criticism in this...