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...appalled. A measly 14 points was enough for Goliath to slay David? Sorry but I'm from the land of 16 points in 48 seconds and touchdowns scored on Holt to McInally to Curry passes and where the game isn't over till the last out. But when the board of overseers unanimously voted to leave with almost ten minutes left I shook my head thinking of what they were going to miss. Top 20 football is a business, however, and for the same reasons that IBM doesn't fall off the stock market, Notre Dame did not fold...
...back during a violent police raid on a Manhattan gay bar in 1969. "I hoped they wouldn't get hurt, but I thought, if this succeeds I'll have to make choices. I didn't want my own covers pulled," admitted Producer-Activist David Rothenberg, 42. It was not till 1973, after he had joined the board of the National Gay Task Force, that Rothenberg pro claimed himself a homosexual on national television...
Matlovich is the son of an Air Force sergeant, and was raised at airbases in the U.S. and England. Though he says he knew he was homosexual at the age of twelve, he did not act upon that knowledge till he was 30, when he finally got up the nerve to go to a gay bar in Pensacola, Fla. Though Matlovich feared he would be raped by frenzied homosexuals, the bar turned out to be a civilized place filled with airmen, blue-collar workers and middle-class professional men. He lost his virginity that night to a government civil servant...
...York is full of people who are crazy till Labor Day," complained Woody Allen in the movie Play It Again, Sam. Allen was one of them. "If I only knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...
...normally resolute person, suddenly floundered in his soul. A weird despair seized him. The wind came up, the sky had turned overcast, and the great ocean began to tumble and break upon itself as if made of slabs of granite and sliding terraces of slate. He watched the ship till he could see it no longer. Yet aboard her were only more customers, for the immigrant population set great store by the American flag...