Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer Cycle. Shawn points out that when he began, "dance choreography was predominantly feminine; it was like music with nothing but strings and woodwinds. It needed the brasses and drums of the male role." So in 1933 he set out to supply them. Picking his first all-male crew for sheer muscle-they included football players, trackmen, gymnasts-he installed them at Jacob's Pillow, a rundown, 150-acre 18th century farmstead he had bought three years before. There each summer he honed the troupe with dancing all morning, farm chores all afternoon. "I wanted to see," he says...
...male victims, muscular dystrophy has long been known to cause a widespread upset in body chemistry, mainly in the enzyme system. In normal men and women, for example, the normal level of an enzyme called creatine kinase is up to 1.5 units per liter of blood. Early in life a boy with Duchenne dystrophy may have astronomically high levels, sometimes up to 1,000 units. Dr. Emery and his fellow workers at the Hopkins decided to check the creatine kinase level in mothers of normal boys, mothers of a single dystrophic boy (who might have produced a nonrecurring defective ovum...
Teen Challenge Centers have sprung up in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and Toronto, and Wilkerson has a work farm for male addicts in Pennsylvania and a home for females in Rhinebeck, N.Y. His board of directors includes Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, Combined Insurance Co. of America President W. Clement Stone. Wilkerson has his critics, among them some of the most eminent narcotics specialists in the U.S. "Sure, he'll cure a few who are motivated by a religious fervor," says Dr. Robert Baird of New York's Haven Clinic. "But what...
...that he's rundown. Each day Bobo gets a massive dose of vitamin E, swigs pure wheat-germ oil, eight raw egg yolks, a jigger of thiamine and a 20-mg. jolt of male hormones. Each day also brings more letters, aphrodisiac recipes and snide phone calls from citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound...
...Kenneth Binkley, the zoo veterinarian, is pessimistic. His diagnosis: "Single male primates raised from babyhood in human homes are highly neurotic. Bobo has human inhibitions-he simply will not make an exhibition of himself in public...