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...first issue, porn's impact on the user, students divide. To many, porn is innocent escapism, a healthy device for fantasizing, a safety valve for dangerous impulses, a useful antidote to Puritan attitudes. Alan Dundes, professor of folklore at Berkeley, argues that it is an informal part of the nation's sex-education program, "the way American culture prepares people for sexuality." To Social Psychologist Douglas Wallace of the University of California Medical Center, porn is needed to bring sexual pleasure to the losers in the sexual game?the shy, the unattractive, the crippled. "Are you," he asks, "to deny...
...Cornell, making art was the most private activity imaginable. It set him free, but the freedom was that of the puritan aristocrat, not the anticlerical rebel. He was the exquisite ruler of little boxes, an incomparably more gifted Ludwig II who constructed his Neuschwanstein-swans, grottoes, secret chambers, opera house and permanent twilight-in the space of half a cubic foot...
...Around here your spirit gets hungry, lonely," she says in a hushed voice. "Sometimes I just want to be quiet, to have beauty and reverence." But then, Hagee turns on this feeling with a Puritan self-criticism that many Mormons seem to lapse into. "This urge," she says, is "probably a weakness." Instead of counting on church services for instilling her with piety, she reprimands herself. I should follow the lesson of Mormon friends, she tells herself, who find time each day to "commune or nourish themselves spiritually." But, she adds, "I need help to do that...
...because it is an interesting piece of Americana," explained Modern Dance Choreographer Martha Graham, 81, as she introduced her interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel last week to an appreciative New York audience. While Graham Protegee Janet Eilber danced the part of Adulteress Hester Prynne in the classic Puritan story, the role of the Rev. Dimmesdale went to celebrated Russian Expatriate Rudolf Nureyev. "I see no irony in using a Russian to dance the lead in this very American story," insisted la grande Graham. "I choose dancers, not nationalists...
...Neil story is an interesting study of the New England Puritan work ethic at its finest. O'Neil played guard during a collegiate career at Salem State, where he obtained both his B.A. and M.A. in history. From there he entered the teaching profession at Revere (Mass.) High School in the fall...