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Sexually, '50s youth talked a far better game than they played. There was a great deal of enthusiastic probing and, once in a while, a couple went "all the way." As befit that benighted era, the girl could thereupon be labeled as anything from a swinging chick to damaged goods. As for her date: well, the boy was just growing up. Most of the time, however, he remained stymied-by moral strictures, by lack of privacy and even by such fashionable devices as the merry widow, a maximum-security fence disguised as a bra and waist cincher...
...best stories is Edward and God, about a young teacher who pretends to great holiness in order to seduce a churchly girl. It gets him hi trouble with his atheistic school directress, whom he must thereupon seduce. Equally as good is Symposium, a pants-off bow to Plato, which follows several male doctors, a woman doctor and a nurse through a nightlong rigadoon. Everyone is feeling randy, and each soul present, though perfectly satisfied that he knows what is happening, is in fact calamitously mistaken about who wants to do what to whom...
...Nixon] and his Administration, as well as to the revenue system and the general public interest." Thrower said he next got a call from Nixon's appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, who reported that Mitchell had passed along Thrower's complaint and therefore no conference with the President was necessary. "Thereupon," said Thrower, "I submitted my resignation...
...film director. Now, she and her third husband, aspiring Director Dennis Berry, 29, live in bourgeois comfort on Paris' Left Bank patronizing young film makers and actors. One of them, Jean-François Ferriol, "feels he is a reincarnation of Billy the Kid," said Jean, who thereupon sat down and wrote a two-reeler called Ballad for the Kid. The script calls for an encounter between Billy, played by Ferriol, and a Hollywood star from the '30s, played by Jean. "When it is shown," said Director Seberg, "I would like to say to the audience...
...Hearst has not only fallen victim to a tragic kidnaping but also to a phylogenetically evolved trait that Konrad Lorenz in his book On Aggression calls "militant enthusiasm." It is a behavior pattern precipitated when young people especially are abruptly exposed to the corrupt, hypocritical aspects of society and thereupon reject all the values and social traditions of that society. They then look for a cause that represents new and higher ideals into which they can wholeheartedly throw themselves. We have all experienced this phenomenon at one time in our lives, whether we acted upon...