Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighbors, and they are loved and loving human beings." The book has another implicit message for heterosexuals: it is that homosexuality is not going to go away, whether society ignores it, accepts it or rejects it. In fact, by looking honestly, if critically, at the gay life, straight men and women may learn important lessons in lovemaking. Among them: that nothing succeeds so much as treating sexual partners with consideration, understanding and unhurried gentleness. Says Masters, "These are the big things to come out of this book at long range, I have a hunch...
...from those who rightly point out that there is more to human affection than rates of orgasm. But that same narrow focus on biology has given to many readers both knowledge and a sense of legitimacy about sex that they never had, and that can be a liberation for men and women of any persuasion...
...ride from the airport, but later the young journalist cannot remember her name. A little subterfuge results in a new meeting and a marriage-now past its 20th year. By today's matrimonial standards Wills is practically a radical. His ideas on love and the governing of men are also a departure from the customary lines. Wills' starting point is St. Augustine: "A people is a gathering of many rational individuals united by accord on loved things held in common." What rational individuals love best is peace. It is, says Wills, "the very soul of society...
...reliving Declan Walsh's military adventures in Korea through the ripely phrased recollections of a Marine master gunnery sergeant, is a crisp, realistic novella. Part 2, narrated in the fastidious accents of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, makes the arcane milieu of the Nine Old Men for once intelligible. Part 3 is the center of the novel. Its narrator, Ugo Cardinal Galeotti, is an urbane Vatican veteran who enjoys fine wine and good company. He possesses a thoughtful spiritual vision as well, and it is through his eyes that the reader is led along on Declan Walsh...
Francesco is dogged by a destiny that oscillates between a quest for sanctity and demonstrations of hubris. He is crowned with the triple tiara that Popes John Paul I and John Paul II rejected, to let men know precisely who is running the church. When police in Spain murder priests under the approving eyes of Cabinet ministers, Francesco revives medieval precedent and threatens to place the entire country under interdict unless the culprits are punished. When a cabal of Cardinals plots to depose him, he dispatches them into exile with all the brutal efficiency of a Nixonian Saturday Night Massacre...