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...GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau, as a suburban husband looking for greener grasses and keener lasses, proves that the person who plays the common man must be an uncommon actor...
...under the "why" of sex education, you omitted one important reason for it, that of preparing people for enjoyable sexual relations in marriage. The frequency of frigidity and impotence eludes statistics, but their occurrence is not infrequent. As a psychiatric social worker, I know that it is not uncommon to find one or both playing a significant role when couples present themselves for marital counseling. Both disorders stem largely from early taught attitudes toward sex. Education that helps instill a responsible and positive attitude toward sex may not ensure healthier marriages for everyone, but it could go a long...
...uncommon measure, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. owes its long reign as the world's largest chemical company to its prowess at scientific research. With endless inventiveness and one of the largest corporate research budgets ($110 million a year), Du Pont's 4,000 scientists annually discover some 1,000 completely new compounds of matter, nurse these and other laboratory-born ideas into commercial usefulness at the remarkable rate of one a month...
...posters, was unveiled at the Pasadena Art Museum in April, opens at the Minneapolis Walker Art Center this week. Then half the works will move on to Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, to be joined by Lichtensteins owned in Europe. As the exhibit illustrates, high craftsmanship and an uncommon wit are his hallmarks, for the show abounds with humorous and satirical jabs at painters past and present (see color opposite...
...ruled-as it still is, though to a lesser extent-by a clubby elite. Nicolson's notes are full of first names and nicknames, and it is sometimes hard to tell whether he is talking about the Beefsteak Club or the House of Commons. Mixed with his uncommon sensitivity to great events there is an uncommon delight in gossip. This does not diminish the worth of the book. If history, as Carlyle said, is really the biographies of great men, it is also their gossip...