Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When she was only 25, Margaret Mead studied sexual mores in Samoa and earned an assistant curatorship at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Half a century and many field trips later, the anthropologist is still working for the museum. To commemorate her 50th anniversary on staff, which happened to coincide with her 75th birthday, the museum established a fund to endow a chair in her name and to reorganize its anthropology collection. Mead plans to help raise the target of $5 million, at least when she can spare the time. She is working on a new book.Letters...
...Haiphong forced Navy pilots to take unreasonable and pointless risks−and needlessly killed hundreds of them. At the height of the Viet Nam protests, amid cries that fascism was at hand. Americans "had, and exercised, the most extraordinary political freedom and civil rights in all history." The sexual revolution ,means that people can copulate "with the same open, free "liberated spirit as dogs in the park or baboons in a tree...
...rule, most comedians treat comedy as a security blanket. They comfort the audience by making whatever unsettles, disturbs or frightens people the chief butt of their jokes. That accounts for the wide popularity of sexual humor, of gibes at local stereotypes and assumed rural, urban, regional and national characteristics. But the rare comedian, impelled by motives that lie too deep for analysis, makes the audience itself the butt of his humor, attacks head-on the smugness, vanity and hypocrisy that people prefer to hide or ignore. Placed in the direct line of comic fire, an audience, and by extension...
Both humongous titans had a lot to lose (Bobo being a reference standard for the Sexual Consultation Group's virility experiments, and Man Mountain being a Mormon), but however much the multiligimented meatball curmudgeoned his swaying flesh to do his dark desires, it was all for naught. Supple young Brazil whupped him to bacon fat. Bobo truly sent the Mountain to Mohammed...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein's charm--the commonality of dumbness. Even the psychopathic villain Jud (most terrifyingly and affectingly played by an actor named Jerry Medanic) has his menace diluted by the dopey Frankenstein aspects to his character. Linda Anne Kirwan's Laurey didn't really make clear the sexual coming-out of the girl lead, but one senses that she wasn't directed with the special attention a Laurey needs to make sure that she's a distinct profile...