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Interested readers may refer to a recent fascinating history of Gay people in America by Jonathan Katz, and a more comprehensive analysis of the subject by Wainwright Churchill (1967, new edition 1976). In Male Homosexuality: A Cross-cultural and Cross-species Investigation, Churchill presents considerable evidence that homosexual and bisexual variations are biological traits in humans and higher mammals...
renounced for rational renderings of them in modern terms; we read The Grapes of Wrath instead of King Arthur because we can understand a character who blurts, "Well, me and Aggie Wainwright, we figgers to git married we are an' they ain't nobody can stop us!," better than one who exclaims "dayle I sholde have kyssed the...sispyte of Quene Gwenyver." The first is immediate, the second quaint...
...ever be expected to go. Nonetheless, the Confederation of British Industries denounced the program as "too little, too late." Tory Shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe called it "a devastating admission of the government's huge mistakes in the past." The drastic austerity plan, said Liberal Party Spokesman Richard Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic. "Mr. Healey had to act," said the mass-circulation Daily Mirror...
Primordial Broth. Enthusiasm is so high that "lifenatics" have taken to exchanging their discoveries in a quarterly newsletter, "Lifeline," published by Life Buff Robert T. Wainwright, a computer specialist in Wilton, Conn. Sample report: "I wanted to find a pattern that would blow up, a bomb that creates a spectacular explosion when the lit fuse burns down." Wainwright himself works hard in his spare time on extending the limits of Life. The paper he presented at this week's 1974 Winter Simulation Conference discussed how the game can imitate creation. Acting like molecules in the primordial broth...
...promises some fine music at relatively reasonable prices. Raitt is playing two shows each night through Sunday, offering her usual skillful guitar playing, one of the best white blues and folk voices around, and a repertoire of songs ranging from the hard-assed to the poignant. After Christmas, Loudon Wainwright III, a powerful and unusually inventive singer and songwriter, will take over through New Year...