Word: manhoods
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...house of another woman. So stale and sad a marital caper would normally raise no eyebrows, let alone lead to a book. But Morris' circumstances were rather special. For one thing, the other woman was Morris himself. After undergoing a transsexual operation in Casablanca to shed his manhood and the name James, Morris now lives in Bath, England, under the name Jan Morris, happily experimenting with lipstick, twin sweater sets and pearls...
Viet Journal, though, is really a kind of true-life adventure story by a middle-aged writer who is still honestly concerned about the roots of manhood in a narrow yet undeniably powerful form. He takes calculated risks by flying over V.C.-controlled territory and touring surrounded South Vietnamese-held villages. He proves himself to himself by taking $340 in poker winnings from a group of majors and colonels. The novelist's eye turns outward as well, providing excellent descriptions of landscapes and cities...
...last a minute on the outside. Here are three enlisted men--lifers--and they're caught in camp in Norfolk without a war, awaiting their "orders." First there's the kid--the big, gawky out-of-it one from high school who joined the Navy to find his manhood but only found "men" who made more fun of him. He is a kleptomaniac, and before the action begins he tries to lift $40 from the polio contribution box at camp. Polio is the commander's wife's favorite charity. The kid is court-martialed, dishonorably discharged and sentenced to eight...
Harvard's official endorsement of a male applicants only--in compliance with Cecil S. Rhodes's will--violates the Amendment stipulation barring unequal benefits to students on the basis of sex. The will's guidelines restrict eligibility to candidates exhibiting "qualities of manhood," thereby denying women a right to the scholarship awards...
...said if there is hope for peace, it lies in depolarizing sex roles), Franklin Thomas (president of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant restoration project), U.S. Congressman Ron Dellums (he appeals to a coalition of havenots) and Black Panther Bobby Seale, who made the pantheon with his statement that "real manhood depends on the subjugation...