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...Superman's sexuality. Superman at Fifty asserts that the essence of Superman is to remain perennially pure: "Virginity is a large part of what makes him so godlike . . . The superior being has to be sexless; furthermore, it must be thought a taboo or a desecration even to look upon him/her as a sex object." Although Superman over the years has generally remained impervious to Lois Lane's wiles, he has succumbed occasionally to other entanglements. In the 1950s there was a handsome brunet named Lori, "mysterious as the sea," whom Clark rescued from her runaway wheelchair. She puzzled...
...tried to correct his testimony and actually imposed injury upon himself in a fit of depression," Walsh said of McFarlane's suicide attempt...
...writing this letter to comment upon an article in a recent issue of the Crimson that described a controversy over a parody attacking the Lampoon. I was struck by the fact that in this piece the Lampoon was represented (or represented itself) as the repository of good taste, clean fun, and enlightened thought. My own recollection from my days as a student are somewhat different; I recall that the Lampoon's publications and its extra-journalistic activities contained personal attacks on faculty members and students, as well as jibes aimed at minorities and women. Perhaps the Lampoon has changed...
...spirit of Falstaff has descended upon the Harvard campus to celebrate the golden anniversary of the Lowell House Opera...
...help but feel angry when you look upon the dead man's mourning parents. Their son died for something, but for what...