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...irrelevance. Rutgers Anthropologist Yehudi Cohen offers a simplified pseudohistorical argument: the taboo is a holdover of a primitive need to form personal alliances and trade agreements beyond the family. Since that is no longer necessary, he says, "human history suggests that the incest taboo may indeed be obsolete." Joan Nelson, a Californian who holds an M.A. in psychology from Antioch, has a special interest in the subject. She has launched the Institute for the Study of Sexual Behavior, and has passed out questionnaires looking for "good or bad" incestuous experiences...
...with; in most cases, these country squires took no responsibility for the slave children they fathered. Julia's female neighbors have not forgotten that sexual abuse and cannot help feeling that she allows Herman to use her body merely for his selfish pleasure, that his love is a lie. Nelson, her male neighbor, considers Julia an uppity nigger who gets involved with whites only because "a Black man got nothing to offer...
...last week was a classic. What happened, apparently, was that Nelson Bunker Hunt, one of the world's richest men (see following story), set out with some associates to accumulate immense hoards of silver last year. Their buying helped drive up prices from $6 per oz. in early 1979 to $50 two months ago. The Hunt group then seemingly borrowed against its silver profits to buy other commodities and stocks. But the $50 price of silver could not be sustained, and when it began to slip the whole pyramid began to tumble...
...still has perhaps $2 billion left after that? A Saudi, maybe, and in fact there were three Saudi Arabian colleagues plus a Brazilian. But their leader, the man who shook the world's commodities markets and almost caused a financial panic last week, is an archetypal Texas wheeler-dealer, Nelson Bunker Hunt...
Graduate women also serve as teaching assistants and propose curriculum changes and additions which affect undergraduate women. I am certain that the Institute of Politics Study Group on "Women in Power in Government" which I helped Professor Valerie Nelson of MIT to organize for this semester would never had been thought of without exposure to the so many excellent programs and contact with other university women which the Forum has fostered...