Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more elusive question is whether or to what extent homosexuality and acceptance of it may be symptoms of social decline. For varying reasons, homosexual relations have been condoned and at times even encouraged among certain males in many primitive societies that anthropologists have studied. However, few scholars have been able to determine that homosexuality had any effect on the functioning of those cultures. At their fullest flowering, the Persian, Greek, Roman and Moslem civilizations permitted a measure of homosexuality; as they decayed, it became more prevalent. Sexual deviance of every variety was common during the Nazis' virulent and corrupt rule...
...which suburbs fight to remain enclaves for the well-to-do. As Alcoa Chairman Fritz Close said last week in San Francisco: "Enabling the poor to find housing in the suburbs, where the jobs are, is probably the biggest single step this country could take toward solving its social problems...
...violent century. As everything from ambassador to special consultant and Assistant Secretary of State, he watched how power was actually used in a variety of crises from the 1933 bank holiday to the Cuban missile showdown. Despite the old American distrust of all power, he believes that our current social ills are eliciting new assertions of power, and that its nature should therefore be better understood. His own attack on it is as systematic and undaunted as any book since Machiavelli's The Prince...
...defense and assorted experts. "Shame," says the reader who recognizes that Wallace fails to show an awareness of the 1966 Supreme Court ruling on Fanny Hill. The decision stated that a book offending community standards could be proscribed only if it was found to be "utterly without redeeming social value." Had Wallace let this fact into his fabrication, the case of The Seven Minutes would have lost nearly all the artificial relevance the author so strenuously pumped into it. Instead he is content to conclude with incontestable banalities -among them the assertion that books are vital to civilization and honest...
Many of the articles and manifestoes about the Center for International Affairs have raised basic issues regarding social science research and the nature of the University which extend far beyond the activities of the Center. Some of these issues are discussed by others. This letter is limited to correcting certain factual statements or implications of fact regarding the origin, financing, and operation of the Center which are untrue...