Word: life
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Misery Concentrated. The seed of self-punishment flowers in the conspiratorial world of the homosexual. Its life, as one Bergler patient related, is "misery concentrated, guilt heightened, depression the order of the day." Male homosexuals are pathologically jealous and "unfaithful." Some have relations with more than 100 males a year. Few relationships last more than several weeks; the most common type is the "one-night stand" or the five-minute meeting in a public park or even a comfort station. With contacts so casual, venereal disease runs wild. (One survey showed that almost 10% of male homosexuals are carriers...
...Still Life. In San Francisco, U.S. Revenooer Jack Courtney investigated a cache of illegal moonshine in Chinatown, emptied three 5-gal. pickle jars of the grog down a drain, found that the dregs consisted of two chickens, two hawks and a monkey...
...neophyte in search of a style after World War II, the place to be was San Francisco. The California School of Fine Arts, which in the 1930s had brought Diego Rivera to San Francisco, had suddenly burst into life again, this time around two fiery abstract painters, Russian-born Mark Rothko, who was scrubbing canvases with shimmering bands of color, and North Dakota-born Clyfford Still, whose outsize paintings suggested both Western canyons and bark peeled from a tree. Talented younger men (notably Sam Francis and Lawrence Calcagno) spread the Rothko-Still gospel in staccato dab-and-dash across...
...business, Edgar Kaiser does not let his private life get into a mold. He wears rakish Tyrolean hats, likes to drive at high speeds, operate his motor boat in the roughest seas, set off powerful firecrackers (one of which ruptured his eardrum). He often buys clothes for his wife, personally outfitted the entire wedding party of one of his three daughters, all married (he also has three sons, Edgar Jr., 17, Henry, 15, and Kim, 11, in Eastern prep schools). Whether Edgar and his wife are ensconced in their six-bedroom, Spanish-style home in Lafayette, Calif, or speeding around...
...novel, Peter is bivouacked in a native village while scouting his python. The chief's head wife plies him with roast bats, and the chief himself leeringly confides the secret which has enabled him to live (or so he says) for 237 years: "Copulate every day of your life." Most of the book's exuberant humor arises from the collision of Quakers, who (in the words of one of them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil in shock at the sight of a naked hide but manage...