Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pusey '28, who became president. Buck called me into his office in 1953 when the issue was firing a tenured professor for his communist affiliation. "Stay here until I come back," he said, "I am going to see the Corporation. I don't know if I can defend this person. I don't even like him, but if we don't support Wendell Furry now, we won't be able to defend Arthur Schlesinger tomorrow. If they don't agree with me, they will have my resignation...
Spenkelink was the first person involuntarily executed in the U.S. since 1967,* and the reactions were immediate. Outside Spenkelink's cell, the 130 other condemned men on Florida's death row shouted and pounded on cell bars. Some 70 demonstrators gathered in the warm spring sun on a field near the prison, chanting "Death row must go" and singing "We shall overcome...
...know the changes I've made since being here. I want him to know who he is killing-the real person, not some idea he has in his head about me." Said Spenkelink's anguished mother Lois, 67, of the Governor: "He doesn't even know my son. How can he kill my son, my only...
...made the case for this side of sexual inspiration (as carefully distinguished from practice) more bluntly than Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Robert J. Stoller. In his new book, Sexual Excitement (Pantheon; $11.95), he says: "It is hostility-the desire, overt or hidden, to harm another person-that generates and enhances sexual excitement. The absence of hostility leads to indifference and boredom...
...inner mind seeks to work out lingering problems from childhood. These scripts help determine whom the adult will be attracted to, how the sexual partner will be dealt with, and even what sexual positions are likely to be preferred. "Sexual excitement depends on a scenario," says Stoller. "The person to be aroused is the 'writer,' who has been at work on the story line since childhood." The writer then turns director, choosing sexual partners "because they are perceived as filling the criteria already written into the role...