Word: stern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fails to respond to him during lovemaking. To his genuine astonishment, he learns from a physician that he was not accomplishing much of anything by stimulating his wife's navel. The naive husband may sound like a caricature concocted at a sex therapists' meeting, but for Mikhail Stern, a dissident Soviet physician now living in France, the story is poignantly symptomatic of the woeful sexual lives of most Soviet citizens...
Though the Kremlin is energetic about publishing statistics on many aspects of Soviet life, one vital area remains terra incognita. The Communist leadership regards sex as virtually nonexistent, except to raise the birth rate; whatever figures exist are guarded as closely as the real statistics on defense spending. Stern, who left the U.S.S.R. in 1977, has now lifted that curtain slightly. In a book published in France, La vie sexuelle en U.R.S.S. (Sex in the Soviet Union), which is to be brought out in the U.S. next spring by Times Books, he offers the most comprehensive description yet of sexual...
...associate dean for student affairs at the Medical School, is on the concert's support committee. Other Harvard sponsors are Courtney B. Cazden, professor of Education; Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology; Chester M. Pierce, professor of Education and Psychiatry at the Medical School and School of Education; and Peggy Stern, an officer of Harvard's Education for Action Program...
Opponents of the bill have offered many amendments designed to cripple the bill by making it so unacceptable to its liberal supporters that they wull ultimately vote against it. Although these amendments were all defeated in the House Govern School of Education; and Peggy Stern, an officer of Harvard's Education for Action Program...
Beckett has touched a responsive chord in an age of self-indulgent pathos. Fate is stern; it demands a hero. Self-pity is soft; it only asks for a man to look in a mirror and recognize a victim. All the "pity poor little me" folk, all the partisans of the "life is a dirty trick" philosophy, which is pervasive in our society, have proclaimed Beckett a genius. He is not a genius, but his considerable gifts, which he has harvested with great integrity, happen to coincide with the scary, fretful temper of the times...