Word: singer
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Students in Professor Barry Singer's Psychology of Sex course at California State University-Long Beach were never too busy to do their homework. And no wonder. There were field trips to nudist colonies, gay bars and swingers' clubs. Singer's pupils could get classroom credit for after-hours experiments: married couples indulging in adultery, for example, or straights having sex with gays. A professor of psychology at the college, Singer required students to analyze and record their experiences in "play books...
...went well until housewives from a local evangelical church learned of the eight-year-old course and concluded to their horror that the taxpayers' money was being spent to encourage experimental sex and voyeurism. As angry state legislators entered the fray, Singer announced that he would no longer give course credits for sex. Last week, however, Cal State officials suspended Singer for 30 days, pending an investigation into his x-rated methods of arousing student interest. The professor insisted that there was nothing immoral about his approach to learning by doing. "Lots of universities have field trips," he said...
FICTION: The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer...
...encounter the symbols of his old age and the images of his old age; they are not repetitions of images called up by his younger self. They speak out of awareness of the past, his deep national feeling, his sense of himself within his race and as seer and singer. He writes of spirals, gyres, staircases to be climbed, a freedom and loftiness that defy horizontal decay...
Eddie Gregson, a former movie actor who trains for the former country singer, said immediately that Gato del Sol would not even go to the Preakness, the second Triple Crown jewel in two weeks, but the tugging of tradition will be strong. "He's had a hard campaign," Gregson said of the handsome gray colt. "I had planned all along for just the Derby and the Belmont Stakes [the third jewel in five weeks]. I don't want to ruin my horse." He had an undeniable point...