Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your cover story on sociobiology [Aug. 1], we believe that the moral teachings found in the world's religions are historically developed cultural products, opposing the selfish tendencies which biological evolution builds into human nature and which are serious obstacles to social cooperation. The golden rule and love of neighbors are not gene-based tendencies in each of us, but are on the contrary socially evolved preachings designed to curb the gene-based greed for more than our share for ourselves, our children and subsequent progeny...
...come-on to women, made him seem, whatever heights of fame he achieved, strictly and forever down home. He defined himself, as Critic Greil Marcus points out in an excellent Presley essay, "by presenting his authentic multiplicity. I am, he announced, a house rocker, a boy steeped in mother-love, a true son of the church, a matinee idol who's only kidding, a man with too many rough edges for anyone ever to smooth away. Something in me yearns for a settling of affairs, he said with his pale music and his tired movies; on the other hand...
Touching as it does matters of love and money, health and deep feminist feeling, the question of midwifery has stirred strong argument, with more to come: an incredible patchwork of wildly inconsistent state laws now govern, ignore or tacitly condone various kinds of midwifery. Setting adequate licensing and training standards, therefore, will not be easy...
...Durrell loves the poetic effusion, what he calls "romancing"-but in an amiable way, like a man on his third drink who suddenly falls in love with a phrase. Some times he treats the past with a lovely disrespect. At the catacombs in Syracuse, 'there was an unhealthy-looking monk on duty at the picture-postcard stall. He looked as if he had just been disinterred himself." As for the catacombs, "a coal mine would have offered the same spectacle, really...
...cooked up a scheme-unnecessarily devious, since no one seriously opposes it-for Hamish to lie with Elsa, who will then hatch out the child that she, Gemma, wants but cannot give birth to. She herself, more to serve iniquity than to requite passion, will bed with Victor. "Love," she tells Elsa, is "gene calling to gene, as country cats call to each other across fields...