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That night, one of my closest friends sat me down to talk. This itself was strange, because we usually talked quite naturally on any subject. The situation became more peculiar as I watched him. I had never seen him so nervous. He couldn't stick to one topic of conversation. Finally, after a very long and pained introduction, he told me he was gay. He had known this throughout our friendship...
...London to write in the 1920s. Although sophistication came easily to her, along with Bloomsbury friends, she did not forget that cultivated society was a veneer over a more fundamental life, governed by forces of nature and timed to the rhythm of the seasons. This double vision gives a peculiar intensity to many of her stories; beneath their bright, sometimes ephemeral surfaces, implacable forces can be felt moving, well beyond human control. Sometimes they break out. In The Storm, a husband and wife visiting an Italian villa find their quarrel interrupted by a ferocious thundershower: "The attack begun, the clouds...
...constitutes the first official acknowledgement that minority students have needs unmet by existing institutions. But the final proposal was clearly struck in compromise, intended to appease the students who called for a Third World center without conjuring the specters of separatism so many whites fear. The report implies a peculiar defeatism. In referring to Third World centers at other schools, it says. "It is clear to this Committee that there is significant opposition to anything at Harvard that suggests a concession to racial separatism," adding, "... the perception of separatism persists, and... the perception almost always assures the reality...
Lucille finally senses how peculiar the three of them look to the town and escapes from "Sylvie's dream," moving in with a lonely but respectable schoolteacher. Ruth stays, increasingly convinced that "we are the same. She could as well be my mother." Well-meaning townspeople decide to save Ruth for ordinary society and have Sylvie declared unfit to raise her. When the success of this crusade seems assured, the aunt and niece decide to keep their house no longer...
Upjohn, which developed minoxidil as a treatment for severe high blood pressure, stumbled on its potential gold mine when clinical trials indicated the drug had a peculiar side effect: growth of hair on the body, face and scalp. Most intriguing, the hair-raising effect extended to the pates of men supposedly irreversibly bald. The drug is too powerful to be taken internally by people not suffering from severe hypertension, so Upjohn is now experimenting with a topical lotion. The first tests, with balding inmates at the state prison in Jackson, Mich., proved inconclusive. Further studies are being done at Massachusetts...