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Perhaps the least visible division, if the most profound in its implications, is the split between those who scrupulously practice safe sex and those who make some compromise. Solid statistics are impossible to get. But anecdotally, the second group seems to be growing dangerously. While a few years ago the rate of new infection among gay men seemed to be slowing down, or even declining, studies in San Francisco and elsewhere have raised questions about that. Therapist Abbott briskly describes what many gay men report: "There is an awful lot of safe-sex recidivism. People who know what they...
...profound responsibility to return this country to the path of social justice and environmental protection," Tsongas said. "But it is also our responsibility to return this country to the path of economic growth and fiscal discipline...
...rightly regarded as the father of modern psychiatry -- as revolutionary a thinker as Darwin, as daring an explorer of the interior world as Columbus was of the exterior. Sigmund Freud not only developed the most profound theory to explain the workings of the human mind, but he also devised much of the terminology -- from Oedipus complex to penis envy -- that has become part of the language. The discipline he founded, psychoanalysis, became the world's most famous technique for helping the troubled come to grips with the demons haunting their minds...
Hidden depths, to be sure. In his finest pieces, Messiaen came closer to articulating the profound horror and supernal beauty of his times than anyone else. The colossal Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum, for wind and percussion (1964), may be the most explicit example of his penchant for the ineffable, but the composer's acute sensitivity to the human condition is found in more intimate pieces as well. Chief among these, and his most famous work, is the Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (1941), for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, a moving confessional made all the more poignant...
Obituaries tend to be occasions for breathless hyperbole and for reducing rich, messy lives to tidy summations. Why should this one be any different? After all, no postwar American literary institution has had a more profound cultural influence than Mad magazine, and William Gaines, the aggressively idiosyncratic impresario who launched and then ran the magazine for four decades, is a singular character in 20th century American publishing -- the anti-Luce...