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...when he writes in an adaptation of Juvenal, "What do you hope from your white pubic hairs," it is not just another attempt to render Latin into English verse, but to say something sharp and contemporary about how the current U.S. cult of youth and happiness, through sex, bears down heavily on older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...town Saturday night in one of his boss's cabs, the police suspected Miller and prodded his confused girl friend, Waitress Betty Baldwin, to sign a statement implicating him. After he was arrested, Miller was held incommunicado for 52 hours, denied counsel and told that one of his pubic hairs had been found in the child's vagina. The police assured him that he was mentally ill and would go to a hospital if he confessed. They wrote his confession, and though he later recanted, it was deemed "voluntary" and used against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bar: The Immunity of Prosecutors | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

Gruesome Impact. Cabbie Miller became a suspect when one of his passengers reported that he had confessed to the murder. After he was arrested, Miller was held incommunicado for 52 hours, denied counsel and told that one of his pubic hairs had been found in the child's vagina. The police assured him that he was mentally ill and would be sent to a hospital if he confessed. Soon after Miller signed a police-written confession, he recanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Classic Case Of False Evidence | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts of his anatomy." Countered another scientist: What about "man's retention of abundant tufts in the axillae and pubic regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: Hairy Argument | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...Member of the Funeral. The reader is amazed at her amazement. The rest of the book is a merciless record of the trivia of death-old age and bed wetting, pubic baldness, enemas, Levin tubes, indignity, pain-all made tolerable because it also sets down the stages by which this renowned intellectual prig came to terms with her natural feelings and at the end allowed herself tears at a Catholic funeral, without even sneering at the priest beyond pointing out that he had trousers on under his chasuble. It acknowledges: "I did not understand that one might sincerely weep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minerva's Mother | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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