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NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ·Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske · Misia, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein Sex in History, Reay Tannahill Show People, Kenneth Tynan · The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
...HISTORY by Reay Tannahill; Stein & Day; 480 pages...
...human animal is goaded by twin appetites so similar that they serve as metaphors for each other-as food writers and Freudians are well aware. Reay Tannahill, a worldly and well-informed Scotswoman, has explored what recorded history tells about both, following Food in History (1973) with this levelheaded history of sex, drawn from sources as various as genetics, architecture, sociology, religion and etymology. As she tells it, the explosive word has a dual connotation: what people do with their private parts, and a 10,000-year-old injustice to women...
...veto-in the operation. Management is by consensus, which often means uneasy compromise reached through a maze of committees. The partners thought that this arrangement would provide economies of scale as well as savings from joint research, diversification of geographical risk and worldwide marketing coordination. But Dunlop Chairman Sir Reay Geddes also warned that "partnership will, in the short term, bring burdens to both...
...still insists that there is nothing like free-for-alls to "create team spirit," he and the other N.H.L. coaches agree that their absence has speeded up the game. "All those bench-clearing things usually wound up as some shirt-pulling and some tugging," says Chicago's Bill Reay. "They weren't worth the time that was lost." The fans seem to agree. Last week the N.H.L. proudly announced that while brawls have decreased, league attendance has increased...