Word: matings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eden. According to Cornelia Ravenal's '79 new musical, the first play by a Radcliffe undergraduate ever to be produced at the Loeb, the big dating service in the sky made a mistake with Adam and Eve. While Eve thinks she was sent to earth to meet her mate. Adam thinks he was promised a maid. With such a beginning, an irresistibly slimy serpent, and a chorus of nine animals misnamed by Adam, complications of course, develop. Set to Ravenal's jazz-rock music, the sometimes ironic, often humorous Sin does not exactly tell an original story, but it certainly...
...traced back to Jane Eyre (1847), both a superb novel and the prototypical romance. The haughty Rochester had to be maimed and blinded before he was suitably domesticated as a mate for the governess heroine. If this deep psychological lode still runs through newly raised consciousnesses, then The Thorn Birds will probably clean up as handsomely as its promoters hope. In any case, its fate will be a barometer of taste circa the late '70s. McCullough has not made literature. For a season or so, her book will make commercial history. Paul Gray
...family, according to Bowen, one child usually grows up to be stronger than the parents, most of the others remain about as immature as the mother and father, and one child does not function as well as anyone else in the family. Because most people select mates with levels of emotional maturity roughly equal to their own, he says, this "weakest child" will grow up to mate with a similarly impaired adult and start the cycle over again at a more disturbed level. Says Bowen: "If we follow the lineage of the weakest child of the weakest child...
...less repercussions on the United States. American relations with Mexico show that neglect or aggressiveness backfire quite easily. At the same time they illustrate the possibility of a solution through a dignified relationship. The elephant should learn to move more cautiously; or not only will it crush its mate, but the whole structure of the bed will collapse...
Perhaps this adversary relationship between sportswriters and jocks is inevitable; these two beasts will never (oh well, rarely) mate. Sportswriters, despite all their in-talk and promo are news reporters; objectivity must be retained, or they lose all credibility and simply become a shill for the team. Writers, regardless of their loyalties, have a responsibility to report the truth...