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Bluestein also claimed that Herrnstein had refused to sign a form allowing an Ed School student, George Purvin, to take Soc Sci 15 for credit because Purvey printed an advertisement in the Crimson asking the faculty to express disapproval of Herrnstein's article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS Charges Herrnstein Harassed Grad Students | 12/15/1971 | See Source »

...first-born by parents who lack experience in child rearing. Confronted with stern and demanding disciplinarians, for example, the child frequently responds by feeling inadequate-and as a consequence unloved. In a young woman suitably well endowed, Skipper and McCaghy suggest, this sense of inadequacy can inspire her to purvey the only commodity whose value she is sure of: her body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Their Hearts Belong to Daddy | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...would continue to provide prison terms of up to six months for pornographers who purvey to children. In Minister Thestrup's opinion, however, the rektor's observation about the normal reaction to pornography applies equally well to adults and is the assumption behind his bill. When they are freely available, he believes, "pornographic books and pictures very quickly become boring and distasteful to adults with a normal sexual life." He is backed up by a four-member professional commission that spent two years studying the subject. The public's interest in pornography, he maintains, is mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark: Pornography: What Is Permitted Is Boring | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

MISS U.S.A. BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). June Lockhart, Pat Boone and Art Linkletter purvey the prime-and well pasteurized-pulchritude of this perennial, live from Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 20, 1966 | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Even if the New York Times isn't really any livelier than it was before its extended opportunity for rest and rehabilitation, it is still a welcome addition to the local papers. Once again we have the Times to purvey all the news that's fit to print and the Record-American to provide the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Times Are Here Again | 4/8/1963 | See Source »

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