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...Americans prefer to keep the two pursuits separate. "Most politicians who don't like me very much refer to me as a poet," McCarthy said. He added that his poet friends urge him to "stay in politics", but he said jokingly that they were expressing their "concern for the public good" rather than criticizing his literary talents...
Interested readers may refer to a recent fascinating history of Gay people in America by Jonathan Katz, and a more comprehensive analysis of the subject by Wainwright Churchill (1967, new edition 1976). In Male Homosexuality: A Cross-cultural and Cross-species Investigation, Churchill presents considerable evidence that homosexual and bisexual variations are biological traits in humans and higher mammals...
...turned ten under the tutelage of Jack Grout, the well-known professional then at the Scioto Country Club in Ohio. Grout in turn had been an assistant to Henry Picard, who is regarded as the finest striker of a two-iron who ever lived. The newspapers loved to refer to Picard as "the chocolate soldier" because he was the pro at the Hershey, Pennsylvania golf club...
Fell's responses to the objections raised by the professional archeologists always refer back to his claimed expertise in linguistics. "Yes," he admits, "anyone can make similar artifacts, but similar languages? The chances of the same words evolving in two separate languages are infinitesimal." His archeology may not be so good, "but I'm an epigrapher, not an archeologist. They say I'm trying to be an archeologist. Naturally, I don't have the credentials, so they dismiss...
When the "hot-shot-cop from Minnesota," as some Harvard patrolmen ambivalently refer to their chief, came here in 1975, he initiated major changes in the role of the Harvard policeman, and today the Police Association claims these changes have precipitated "distrust" and "low morale" in the force...