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...principle stands firm: masculinity is good, femininity is bad. Beyond the usual visual analogies--curves and receptacles are womblike; steeples, shoes, and cylinders are phallic--lie physiological comparisons. They equate woman's mind with "her most definitive organ," according to Norman Mailer (one of Them), and just as the womb is conservative, nutritive, claustrophobic, feminine influence is antithetical to energy and thought. "Let's get out of here," a Harvard student said to a girl he visited in her dorm. "The smell of women paralyzes...
Victims, he says, have been described as brain-injured or brain-damaged, or as having an organic brain defect resulting in unsocialized, aggressive behavior. It is likely, most psychiatrists agree, that these children have suffered (perhaps in the womb or at birth) a minute brain abnormality that impairs their social behavior. But they are not mentally retarded; their intelligence is usually average or above...
...still my first love. When I sit at the piano I feel back in the womb...
...vital factor in his ability to practice confidently and well. Health and medical care are as essential to the Negro's joining the mainstream of American life as are education and job opportunities. Indeed health may be more fundamental, and Negroes are sicker than whites from womb to tomb-their infant-mortality rate is double that of whites. A child can learn little, even in a vastly improved school system, if he is suffering -as are many Negroes in both North and South-from borderline malnutri tion, iron deficiency and anemia, as well as assorted infectious and parasitic diseases...
...Fortas himself is thinking of equipping his office with a computer console to tap the memory bank of social knowledge and data assembled by the Russell Sage Foundation, of which he is a trustee. More and more the courts "enter into everybody's life every day, from pre-womb to post-tomb," and a many-sided approach, using all the disciplines, could result in something more satisfactory than "the frustrations and agonies of undebatable principle in sharp conflict with undeniable fact...