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With homosexuality in Britain a matter of government concern and wide-open public discussion (TIME, Dec. 16). the once-taboo subject got a whirl in last week's British Medical Journal. First difficulty, reported a three-man research team which had worked at Bristol Mental Hospitals, is to find out just what a homosexual is. So the Bristol psychiatrists went to nearby prisons, got 64 volunteer subjects, aged 20 to 61, doing time for unnatural acts. The researchers exploded a lot of widespread fallacies: CJ Even among prison cases, homosexuality is no all-or-nothing quality. Only nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is a Homosexual? | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Leaps to Rock. After attending a matinee of West Side Story, the whole company paid an onstage visit to the cast, soon began communicating in a spontaneous contest of dance leaps and turns. When the Russians outleaped and outturned them, the West Siders took refuge in a whirl of rock 'n' roll. To their astonishment, the Muscovites went right into rock 'n' roll too. The Russians also went downtown to Michael Herman's Folk Dance House, studiously followed a caller through the intricacies of such American classics as Kentucky Mountain Running Set, Paw Paw Patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O.K.! | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Always seeking harmony, man sees the universe-for a few brief moments-as a pleasingly simple machine. Then curiosity about the nature of matter gets the better of him. Democritus conceived matter as only a whirl of tiny, indivisible units called atoms. Plato disagreed, saw it as a symmetrical expression of mathematical relations between five basic structures. Then came the theory of light radiating in continuous waves. German Physicist Max Planck overturned that in 1900; he said energy comes in discontinuous particles-or quanta-and Einstein followed him with the idea that light can be thought of as both particle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Assumptions of Symmetry | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...back to school to all his contemporaries. "Coming to the university," says he, "was the most intelligent thing I ever did in my life. I am not compelled as are so many of my contemporaries to kill time playing darts and dominoes in the local pub. I have the whirl and surge and generosity of youth around me, and they've taught me again to hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Oldest Undergraduate | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most-a divorce." Instead, though, Lothario Lahr settled for a whirl at the posh Murmuring Sands Hotel and the charms of a predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice he has filled out a preposterous, knee-length bathing suit. With a meddling, mixed-metaphored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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