Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Binger and the Deans said they wanted to correct this attitude, and in a letter to The Crimson in the fall of 1963, Binger wrote, "what is important and valuable in a sexual relationship is not merely the excitement and pleasure but also its uniqueness and meaningfulness. This will not be achieved when it is indulged in as a show of athletic prowess in the male or as reassurance for his own faltering masculinity; nor in the female as a conventional compliance with what others are doing or again to prove her own attractiveness and let her little world know...
...Dunster House Committee was among the first to protest vehemently against the considered changes in rules. Along with Thomas Seymour '64, president of the Harvard Council of Undergraduate Affairs (HCUA), the House Committee proposed a study of sexual practices at Harvard and organized a group to conduct the study and consider working to abolish parietals altogether. John Purvis '64 of the Dunster House Committee said then that, "it would be unfortunate if the privilege of entertaining a date in a natural setting were taken away because of vague suspicions...
...like to be together and enjoy each other's company in a quiet and private place; it is also true that most Harvard and Radcliffe students, when they leave their colleges are no longer virgins; and it is finally true that many of the students have their first complete sexual experiences during Harvard's parietal hours...
That cleared the way for Richard Gephardt, who has already passed professional, financial and sexual scrutiny as a candidate for President, to run for majority leader. Gephardt had been lying low until Coelho dropped out -- he and Coelho have a noncompete clause in their friendship contract -- so late Friday he was scrambling to get members' home phone numbers to campaign over the weekend. Georgia's Ed Jenkins, an ally of powerful Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, is another likely candidate. Former Budget Chairman Bill Gray, Arkansas' Beryl Anthony and Michigan's David Bonior will probably fight it out for Coelho...
...introduction of eugenics into what was supposed to be a story of Sandra and Jack's illicit sexual shenanigans may seem jarring. That is Weldon's intention. Once again she has written a memorable novel about a woman who tries to be a flibbertigibbet and falls short -- collapses, in fact, between the demands of spirit and flesh into the gloriously common muddle in between...