Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarter of the gays interviewed believe homosexuality is an emotional disorder. About one-third had seriously considered stopping all homosexual activity at least once in their lives...
...study, written by Psychologist Alan Bell and Sociologist Martin Weinberg, finds that lesbians have fewer problems and are less sexually active than male homosexuals. At the time, three-quarters of the women were involved in relatively stable relationships; the majority had fewer than ten homosexual partners over a lifetime, and venereal disease was virtually unknown (one reported case among 293 women). Only one-half of the men were in stable relationships; the average male reported sex acts with hundreds of men, and two-thirds had developed venereal disease at least once. Forty percent of the men had had more than...
...expanding rapidly since March. The Fed once again raised (to 7¼%) the discount rate, which is the interest it charges on loans to Federal Reserve system banks. Meanwhile, several large banks, led by New York's Citibank, raised their prime lending rate for top corporations by a quarter percentage point, to 9%, the second such increase in the past two weeks...
...such festivals, Newport celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with more than 100 performers in an all-star salute to the history of jazz. From out of the Dixieland past stomped "Kid" Thomas, 82, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Transplanted for an evening from New Orleans' French Quarter, the group played engagingly oldfashioned, banjo-accented favorites and clowned between the numbers...
...conscience to fit the reigning Paris fashions, it is not surprising that Camus became a figure of global controversy. It was a difficult role to assume; he struggled with it until his death, aware that any political or artistic statement would be distorted. "One never says a quarter of what one knows," he confessed. "Otherwise all would collapse. How little one says, and they are already screaming." Even posthumously the man was not safe. In the '60s the New York Times listed him as one of seven heroes of the New Left, a pantheon figure alongside Che Guevara, Herbert...