Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about homosexuality so that they can help rather than hector the young; law officers should be given facts to set against their irrational feelings. "Disgust and anxiety interfere with an objective understanding of the problem, and could be prevented or alleviated if valid information about homosexuality were disseminated," the report says. Among the homosexuals, "it is important to counteract the prevalent sense of hopelessness and inevitability...
Puritanical Proscriptions. Distinctions between types of homosexuals should be at the heart of the nation's legal policies, the report argues. Penalties should remain stringent for homosexuals who commit forcible rape, seduce children or commit sex acts in public. But "discreet homosexuality is the private business of the individual rather than a subject for public regulation"; prohibition of "the crime against nature," as many statute books coyly phrase it, merely raises the homosexual's vulnerability to blackmail and "exacerbates" his mental-health problems. The commission recommends that the U.S. follow the example of England, which two years...
...Hooker report's sobering implication that society has been grossly unfair to the homosexual is sure to stir controversy, and its recommendations are bound to be adopted only slowly. Still, the research makes clear that Americans can now recognize the diversity of homosexual life and understand that an undesirable handicap does not necessarily make everyone afflicted with it undesirable...
...Salvador Luria, 57, washing the breakfast dishes in Lexington, Mass., was incredulous when a neighbor interrupted to report what he had just heard over the radio. Dr. Alfred Hershey, 60, also was skeptical when word reached him at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. Dr. Max Delbrück, 63, was disgruntled; it was only 5 a.m. in Pasadena when a reporter called him. Telegrams from Stockholm soon confirmed the news. The three biologists (only Luria is an M.D.) had been jointly awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their work between 1940 and 1952 in microbiology and genetics...
...Paint Your Wagon, Paramount's praise agents laid on a schedule for Marvin that could drive a man to drink -and did. TIME Associate Editor Ray Kennedy and Reporter Mary Cronin rode along. Their report...