Word: surprisingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many students, beseiged by literature in recent weeks that has marked the tenth anniversary of the Harvard strike, have in fact been surprised to learn that the creation of an autonomous Afro-American Studies Department has been one major demand of striking Harvard students in 1969. More surprising than the...
Viet Nam was thrust into the forefront of most Americans' consciousness last week in a surprising but somehow fitting manner: at the Academy Award presentations witnessed by an estimated 70 million TV viewers in the U.S. So it was movies and television again that brought the war back: the...
The evolving status of gays, and the way they are perceived by heterosexuals, is all the more surprising because of the nature of the gay society. Homosexuals form the most amorphous and isolated -though also the most pervasive-of all American minorities. Blacks and Hispanics, for example, are unified to...
One of the book's most unexpected findings did not come out of the homosexual research project, but from sex therapy provided for gays-itself something of a pioneering venture. Between 1968 and 1977 the researchers treated, for various sexual problems, 151 homosexuals, including 54 men and 13 women who...
Masters and Johnson consider these findings subsidiary to the main, and really not very surprising, point of the book: there are no differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals in the physical processes of lubrication, erection, ejaculation and orgasm. Says Masters: "The entire orgasmic experience is indistinguishable." Indeed, the researchers believe that...