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...Pooh Perplex, Crews...
...today! This is what I have called callous. Dr. Blaine is wrong in falling to join Goodman in condemnation of society's hostility to bastardy and the unwed mother. Goodman is wrong in pooh-poohing Blaine's recognition of this unhappy attitude as social fact. Properly, we should work towards changing the situation without minimizing the damage to people caught in the wake of social change. To Goodman, these are expendable and unimportant droplets in a great wave. To Blaine, they are miserable individuals who seek his therapy...
...Pooh Perplex, Crews...
...then, sort of casually you say, "As a matter of fact, I am one this very minute." Then while her jaws are still agape or she's saying: "Pooh! I don't believe it," you say, not too one-uppishly: "It's not hard really, not nearly as hard as math. Mother told me my great-grandmother way back in the Dark Ages wrote hundreds and hundreds of novels. She was called Elinor Glyn and Lord Curzon was madly in love with her and I thought...
What was going on? Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe (where boys can visit girls in their rooms up to 25 hours a week), saw "no indication that there has been any serious trouble." Harvard's boys and girls generally pooh-poohed Monro's alarm. But the usually tolerant dean, who feels that probably 90% of the students have high moral standards, is less concerned about incidents than about interpretation. As one senior revealingly wrote in the Crimson: "Morality is a relative concept projecting certain mythologies associated with magico-religious beliefs...