Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evergreen's editors claim that they are not on the lookout for adventurous sex; that just happens to be what people are writing about. "It is the last frontier," says Managing Editor Fred Jordan. "Sex also serves other func tions and stands for things beyond itself. It can be a political statement." If sex, in fact, turns sour in so many Evergreen stories, the editors believe that is a reflection of the times, specifically the anguish over the Viet...
...sex, truth to tell, is cheerless in Evergreen. Women are not so much to be loved as abused, and the varieties are impressive. One writer, E. F. Cherrytree, candidly reveals his special hangup: a passion to see women fighting each other, the bloodier the better. "It's my biggest sex pleasure and has been since I was four. I'm 35 now." Evergreen illustrated this treatise with a few pages of sketches of two shapely girls, one blonde, one mauve, going at it tooth and claw. The piece evoked considerable response, says Rosset, all of it favorable...
Cult of Revolution. Evergreen's politics is as far out as its sex. It subscribes to the New Left roster of revolutionary heroes: Che Guevara, Castro, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Stokely Carmichael. It has published LeRoi Jones's furious diatribes against whites, mainly Jewish: "The little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the Arab's head." While not taking it too seriously, Rosset excuses black anti-Semitism on the grounds that Jewish merchants, after all, have exploited Negroes in the ghetto. "We agree with practically everything LeRoi says," explains Rosset, "except that...
Lyndon Johnson now has before him for signature a law just passed by House and Senate requiring that all federal juries be picked at random from rolls that fully reflect "a fair cross section of the community" without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin or economic status. Since Johnson requested the bill, there is little doubt that he will sign it most happily...
...Boston headquarters of the Unitarian Universalist Association has used computerized bookkeeping for years, and is about to hook up with a larger computer bank in Manhattan for additional service. With its new facilities the church will study members' views on a wide range of questions, from sex to the hereafter...