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Since anthropologists are just as entitled as Kinsey-Chapman investigators to discuss sex in solemnly clinical detail, Wallace has obviously come upon a literary genre that may proliferate indefinitely...
...especially appropriate place for the beginning of a new Graham crusade: it was there that his sermons first rocketed him to national fame. "It all started here 14 years ago," Graham said in Los Angeles. "Nobody had heard of Khrushchev, Castro was a teen-ager,* and Dr. Kinsey was still studying wasps...
Honors have piled up for Counsilman. Indiana recently awarded him its 1963 Leather Medal for bringing "the most distinction to the university." (Among the previous winners: Sexpert Alfred Kinsey, Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Hermann Muller.) The A.A.U. has just named him head coach of the U.S.'s 1964 Olympic swimming team. And five rival Big Ten swimming coaches, for whom Counsilman's success has meant nothing but hurt, pain, agony, have paid him an ultimate tribute: they refuse to compete against Indiana in a two-team meet...
...much overpraised staging of the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, he injected brawling Renaissance vigor at the cost of turning a poetic tragedy into a documentary on 15th century juvenile delinquents. He tries to press The Lady of the Camellias between the pages of the Kinsey report, but the Dumas romance is too wilted for even hothouse sociology...
...true that Freud, Joyce and general confusion in the mind have made it impossible to write novels in the manner of Anthony Trollope. Sybille Bedford does just that. She is not an existentialist desperado; she does not go into psychological swivets; she has no new material for Dr. Kinsey. She just tells a plain tale with an old-fashioned Trollopean sense of the importance of what people wear, the houses they occupy, the jobs and property they get and lose, and the inherent drama of the tables of consanguinity. To this concern she adds a truly female tongue...