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...Venn Diagram consisting of the girls interested in James R. Friedman ’05 and the girls that interest Friedman would have zero overlap. “I’m like catnip for prudish nerds,” complained Friedman, “and the Crimson Dance Team won’t give me the time of day?...
...movie is, I suppose, an expos? of religious fanaticism - a strange agenda to set before his mostly rural, most Southern audiences. Didn't matter: Meyer always poured so much kinetic Kickapoo Joy Juice into his social parodies that few but the prudish could take offense. "Lorna" was not only big at "the ticket wickets," it pleased the rubes, not to mention the movie exhibitors who made money from them. "What a joy to see on a warm romantic Kansas City night," Bev Winter, a Kansas City film broker, wrote to Meyer - "a full drive-in with all those cars shakin...
...Everything we know about Cleopatra comes from later Roman writers," including Plutarch, says Higgs, "and it's nearly all negative." That "prudish and snobbish" Romans would see Egypt's queen as a barbarian and a seductress is unsurprising, he adds, given that "she had taken away from them both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony." Still, says Higgs, even Cleopatra's critics acknowledged that she had some admirable qualities. Apart from her beauty, she is said to have been a humorous and charming conversationalist. Intelligent and savvy, she was a skilled diplomat who spoke several languages-and was clearly loved...
...time swallowed those Asian sexual Shangri-las, and history, in the form of prudish colonialism, religious movements and puritanical social engineers such as Mao and Pol Pot, managed to drown the roots of those liberated notions. The Asia of the second half of the 20th century was a fundamentally conservative place, albeit with variations. In the largely Roman Catholic Philippines, men frequently had more than one wife. Few places were as straight-laced as Singapore, but its drag queens thrived. You could be gay in Java - if you liked isolation. "Homosexuality is tolerated in Indonesia," says Dede Oetomo, an anthropologist...
...first to trace the Rodhams back to a "raw and sparse" life in Scranton, Pa., where Hillary's grandfather worked 16-hour days in a lace factory and most of his relatives were "exhausted laborers, blistered farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...