Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knight was known around Albany as a "gang leader." In the South, this implied nothing about jackets, a "turf," organized warfare or a hierarchical command, but meant simply that he fought hard, drank a lot, carried influence among his male peers in C.M.E. as the best among equals, and weilded genuine authority only over the age-group that rides souped-up bicycles and smokes cigarettes with great flourish. Quick, wild-grinning, tall and made taller by the brush of his untended process, he was working when he could, hustling what he could, living round the circle of his relatives...
...Surgeon Charles Brenton Huggins, 62, of Chicago, who may go down in medical history as "the great castrator" because he discovered in 1941 that many men with prostate cancer can be saved by castration, which shuts off the supply of male sex hormones on which the cancer battens. The operation need not be surgical: it can also be done by X rays, or chemically with female hormones. The corresponding operation in women, removal of the ovaries, will spare many victims of spreading breast cancer. Huggins also showed that removal of the adrenals helps these women patients...
Mormons believe that Negroes cannot become priests-although Mormons define most active male believers as priests. Non-Mormons are prone to infer from this that Mormons are segregationists. The church replies that it has a right to set the qualifications of its own priesthood, and that excluding Negroes is no more discriminatory than the refusal of many churches (including the Mormons) to ordain women...
Instead, their place was taken in the arena by the "gadarawa" (male dancers, usually humorous, affecting outlandish or archaic attire) who spun and twirled and twisted, cupping their hands to their mouths the better to emphasize the strident coarseness of he hoarse cries which they continually emitted...
...believe that the attitude that sexual intercourse before marriage is morally wrong in the Harvard milieu stems from a cultural belief of long standing concerning sex-segregation. Western culture as well as so-called primitive cultures has recognized roles and activities which were distinctively "male" or "female." ... ritual myths and taboos were invented in certain cultures concerning the contaminating effect of women and their magical ability to injure or harm man.... I feel that the attitude of the Deans toward sexual intimacy is another expression of the myth that women distract or contaminate men through sexual attractiveness...