Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember one old man who spoke after a sober and moving exposition of the terrible damage to maternal health caused by forcing a partially crippled woman to bear a full term pregnancy. The old man, who purported to be the leader of a "moral conservation society," asserted that a change in the law would somehow be an extension of the affront to society posed by the hippies "who feel they have a right to live together...
There are three sources of information in Cambridge for a woman seeking birth control information: private and public social service agencies, the hospitals, and private physicians...
...acting director stood over me nervously as I questioned one of his subordinates, the director of social workers for Aid to Dependent Children. This young woman, responsible for perhaps 1,500 families, would not state whether there was a policy on family planning or not. She was extremely defensive and would not even discuss whether her social workers, when asked, would refer the woman to her family doctor. I asked whether, in lieu of policy, a tacit prohibition arose; she would not answer...
...lilac." But too often he mixes four-letter words with what Norman Mailer once called the "stale garlic" of his lyricism (the offense being not in the four-letter words but in the garlic). Occasionally, the garlic stands alone, as in Updike's description of a man and woman achieving climax: "So he did then travel through a palace of cloth and sliding stairways throughout the casket of perfume that
...occasion is a birthday party for Harold (Leonard Frey), an event as ominous for a homosexual as for an aging woman with its reminder that good looks can fade and desirability diminish. The party thrower (Kenneth Nelson) is a tormented Roman Catholic, undergoing psychoanalysis, who secretly hates himself and makes anti-homosexual quips in the same way that some Jews tell anti-Semitic jokes. Each of his friends has his own hangup. A Negro known as "the queen of spades" suffers rejection because of his unrequited love for a heterosexual white boy. One couple is undergoing an emotional rift...