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Ms. Erica Jong's heroine's idea of sexual bliss [Feb. 3] seems to derive from masculine flatulence and her partner's unwashed feet. It is not uninhibited openness but commercialism; not Molly Bloom or the powerfully abominable Henry Miller, but a shrewd hawking of The Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 24, 1975 | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

Because Paul Horowitz has always loved gadgets, and because he had always wondered how much arsenic was on the skin of unwashed apples, he didn't notice the two graduate students talking as he leaned over his newest creation, the proton microscope. They were impatient to try their own more...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: A Boy Wonder Finds a Home | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

Two years later she became pregnant by and finally married William Godwin, the brilliant though priggish political philosopher, who was publicly opposed to matrimony. Five months after the wedding, a doctor with unwashed hands attended the birth of her daughter Mary. Wollstonecraft died of septicemia eleven days later. The final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ms. Prometheus | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

The support Moses enjoyed from the public was at least partly based on the reputation for reforming liberalism he earned in his early youth. While always calling himself liberal, Moses was a staunch conservative, even a reactionary, underneath. Moses had nothing but contempt for the filthiness and stupidity of the...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Moses And Monolithism | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

Frazier wastes no sympathy on what he might call the Great Sartorially Unwashed: those who wear double-knit suits off the rack and monograms, which he regards as "manifestations of insecurity." He devoted an entire column recently to upbraiding a Los Angeles physician who had tried to crash Boston'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gentleman George | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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