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...nearly always the butt of them. The alleged insatiability of the female also runs as an undercurrent through that story-providing a way for the male who is worried about his sexual adequacy to blame it on his partner. This principle comes clear in the joke about a wife whose doctor informs her that her husband is suffering from the physical effects of dissipation: "Dissipation? But doctor, that's impossible. Why he's been home every night since we were married...
...Blair Jr. as editor in chief of the Post; Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" changed the character of the magazine and made for lively reading, but it also led to at least six libel suits. The Post's last hope was 36-year-old Corporation Lawyer Martin Ackerman, whose 1962 merger of four firms to create Perfect Film & Chemical Corp. showed his knack for healing sick companies...
...Daimoku is a ritual prayer whose Sanskrit and Chinese words, "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo," are roughly translatable as "Glory to the Lotus Sutra of the Mystical Law." In homes, it is usually chanted in front of a Go-honzon, a small wooden altar containing a replica of the original prayer scroll, the Dai-Gohonzon, still enshrined in Japan. * One Soka Gakkai song-to the tune of I've Been Working on the Railroad-immortalizes the practice: "I've been doing shakubuku all the livelong...
Once upon a time there lived in New York City a little boy named Danny Reeves whose father was very rich...
...poetic voice, was not as innocent of depth psychology as a post-Freudian age might complacently assume. Pope's sin (in modern usage, his neurosis or maladjustment) is explored with devoted detachment by Peter Quennell in the first of a promised two-volume work on the little cripple whose verses fixed a thousand human insects in Formalin...