Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But with the fags now it's different. They have never been anything but a problem. Yes, the fags, the fairies, the queens, the queers. Just stop and try to recall all the derogatory euphemisms we've invented in order to reject homosexuals. Lots of them, aren't there? Probably...
YET, I WISH they didn't want us to laugh so much. Admittedly, we can always defend ourselves. We can tell ourselves our laughter is being evoked only to demonstrate once and for all just how cruel society is. But it's an unconvincing argument. No matter how we hide...
"I learned everything I know at M.I.T.," Bein said. "Brian is our only good ringman, but he was a good ringman before he came here."
In 1960, "Phase II" began. The Carnegie Corporation offered to finance the Project as part of its worldwide research program in culture change. Columbia and Cornell were also invited to participate in the program, and the first undergraduates were accepted to do field work. The modern Chiapas Project began taking...
Circle for Fury. This farfetched theory of Wolfe's paternity is one of several learned but lighthearted speculations passed on by the late William S. Baring-Gould, who was creative director of TIME'S circulation and corporate education departments as well as a detective-novel buff. In his...