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C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Gay Times Not explained in Patrick J. Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir's "Gay Times and Diseases" (TAS, August 1984) is how homosexual behavior by itself is probably...
...Has the old boy forgotten tea time at Brown's Hotel with all the mule-faced English ladies yakking idiotically as they wolf down the low-grade victuals that on that esurient isle pass for delicacies...
...And Washington's virtue patrols led by the upright Senator Howard Metzenbaum, a parking lot millionaire, may be turning their scrutiny on Mr...
...The prize is to be called "The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin," and apparently Mr...
...Truman Capote have the bad grace to die while being a house guest at the home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife, but in his will the cad established an annual award for literary criticism...
...Fortunately following a hint thrown out by W.H...
...Nonetheless the plucky beauty vows to clear her name, having declared in the September 10 issue of People, " . . . I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me...
...tl~t' l)11% lit'~t'> ,lit' I)Ult'~llltlflllt'~lJ]) ,l~>l~rllt'd ,llld 711u i l l h t T t , i l l k tlllCt'rhilii dill' lit lilt' ilarr( i...
...I would call to Dr...
...I suggest that no such valid study exists anywhere...
...The heliomaniacs of the state of Washington are triumphant after having the National Park service install a $30,000 solarpowered comfort station atop Mount Rainier...
...I will happily submit the standards of decency and morality of any of my friends and employees to comparison with those of anyone else in the world...
...SIGN ME UP FOR A YEAR OF ART & ANTIQUES...
...The point about a threat to human life was a matter raised by the editor of Nature (March 8, 1984) who questioned whether this always fatal disease (AIDS) could become " a more generalized infection of people...
...may even have been one--Manny was totally innocent of any such knowledge...
...Mondale's foreign policy that the Soviet diplomat was eager to assist him...
...In our pages it bursts into open flame...
...Coterminously, in the early fifties, a forward-looking man (Pete Martin) decided to start a magazine devoted to the pop arts entirely.-This was City Lights (no relation to the later Ferlinghetti production...
...Andrei Gromyko with him...
...177 I o~,i Nlreel, licpl...
...We are discriminated against in virtually every financial, insurance, and tax-related transaction simply for being "single...
...STATE Z~ PLEASE CLIP AND MAIL TOART & AN~QUES DEPT...
...In reply to J. Kevin Barry, it seems clear that he missed the point of our article, which was to point out that the homosexual lifestyle as modally practiced is demonstrably a harmful, if not dangerous, public health hazard...
...Jacob A. Stein...
...Scandinavian paper...
...Thus, AIDS virus, subclinical and imperceptible for millenia (because of denial, by human custom, of its best route of host-to-host transmission), suddenly reappears virulently as a direct consequence of the renewed practice of mouth-to-feces contact by homosexuals...
...owevt'r, t'lilllp~tl't'd \~attl pnvale linlberlands, i)tll)llt" lalld.~ hart..~y.~tt'lllatlt'all) vqt llt'sged frequent and st.vt.rt, tlnlbt'r >tlj)[)l.v problt.lns...
...Carrying a cane and an umbrella is clumsy, so I only take them out on sunny days...
...1-I...
...law and rulatt,d fields...
...89 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10~3...
...And yes, the majority of the gay community probably now have a history (knowingly or otherwise) of homosexual venereal disease of one kind or another...
...Herpes, gonorrhea, and syphillis are rampant among them...
...cruel the world that gives not every love its place...
...But millions of years ago, man alone began to abandon the practice still enjoyed by other animals, of sniffing, licking, and otherwise putting his mouth near his neighbor's anus...
...The New Republic's Michael Kinsley bumps into Cranbrook furniture...
...Insanitary practices conducted in large, urban populations where symptomless disease carriers are common will obviously lead to epidemics (hepatitis B, gay bowel syndrome, etc., and now AIDS...
...annually kill off 1.5 million of their preborn children in an attempt to control the "disease" of pregnancy...
...Tm~Ibt~u~s t'lilllparc's prlvatt, l l l a r k i ' t x t i l h public" I)tlrt, i l l l f r i l l l C filrt..~t Fllana/4eliit'iit and t'rllit'ally t . x a n l i i i t . s ...;ut'h tl)pit's its slate arid ft.dt_.ral rt'l~llatlon (if llnlbt'i lands, tlnlbt'r lax ~ind iilltiliti~t polities...
...Mondale become by the end of September that a photo session with the Soviet foreign minister seemed helpful, and it tells us something about the prudence of Mr...
...He could follow this by getting hold of the 1981 AMA publication "Sexual Problems in Medical Practice" where he will learn that a considerable number of homosexuals "wishing change and who remain in treatment [can] become exclusively heterosexual...
...David Johns Bryson, a convicted rapist who was arrested after Dr...
...Because weare Americans we will have the unquestioned rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...
...This is the category I would place myself in...
...Why must the debate among conservatives regarding the "Gay Rights" issue descend to screams of "disease, plague, and epidemic...
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...RET THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1984 7 The bor@ closes with two thoughts, one from Marcus Aurelius: "What a small portion of vast and infinite eternity it is, that is allowed unto every one of us, and how soon it vanisheth into the general age of the world...
...Are you hurt...
...In that respect I would point out that the "modal form" of sexual behavior in the gay community is (or was until recently) frequent, impersonal sexual contact...
...Peter Metzger's letter, I can only agree that common forms of gay sexual activity are clearly insanitary...
...UP T I l E R-LN(;E Federal I.and Controls and Grazing l~ G.\R'~ II...
...l'ht.~ h . o k t~ a n I l l h I h i l u a l x'l m , ,t # a r c q u t l l t t ~ t i m / t tlllll "' -B...
...To Mr...
...If this strategy proves ineffectual, let him try the back porch...
...Superseding all those real German sociologists--whose names began with "K" and who had all discovered Potemkin--the real birth of movie criticism was, if anything, antisociological...
...In a follow-up on one of the most memorable stories ever to appear in this column, Miss Linda Jean Loftin, the lesbian who fathered a child (Sparkle Christel) by artificially inseminating her lover (Miss Mary Elizabeth Flournoy) with a turkey baster fortified with semen from her brother (Opel Ronald), has been granted visitation privileges...
...If we're looking at Diego Rivera's cubist paintings, it's through the eyes of Leon Trotsky...
...And if, for any reason, I am not satisfied with ART & ANTIQUES I may write for a full refund on all unmailed copies...
...Virtually every animal species has several extremely virulent and highly fatal inborn viruses that regularly reappear and wipe out entire populations all at once...
...Podhoretz...
...it is fear that feeds their bloated emotions and hatred that corrupts their other...
...Well, perhaps he did, but he probably also said that he had quite forgotten who put his shoes on the morning of the interview and that his trousers were once again inexplicably sopping wet...
...Mondale campaigns these thankless days he declaims: "I'm not trying to get elected President by hiding from the American people...
...Barry is recommended the following reading: l) Darrow, W.W...
...The inscription on the head is in German--Cincinnati used to be a German town--and it was presented to some long-dead burgher on his Geburtstag...
...So fevered did he become that the President rushed to placate him with a telephone call...
...Naturally, those human societies which condemned such contact as taboo quickly became much healthier than those which didn't and in the normal course of natural selection, the former survived as the human norm at the expense of the latter...
...As to how the causative agent(s) of AIDS entered the homosexual community is a matter of speculation...
...I have enclosed a payment for $36 (a savings of $24 off the newsstand price of $60...
...We are both Republicans and financial supporters of the Republican party Our closest gay friends have been together for 22 and 29 years respective...
...This hateful article concludes with a quotation from a virtually unknown historian regarding morality...
...In another statement worthy of Hitler's propaganda the article suggests that AIDS may be a threat to continued existence of human life on earth...
...Boulder, Colorado Heterosexuals in the U.S...
...But spare us, your readers, such shrill essays...
...You bet...
...The couple broke up in 1980, probably owing to the continual publicity that followed their simple proclamation of love on "The Phil Donahue Show" with Phil earnestly presiding...
...Two members of the Department sent to a Baton Rouge shopping center to free three baby raccoons from a trash dumpster clubbed them to death much to the astonishment of shoppers, dozens of whom had gathered 'round the dumpster with their expectant tots all hoping to see the cute little arboreal Carnivora gambol off into the nearby wilderness...
...The second is the message the protagonist leaves to her great-granddaughter...
...This is a heavy-duty piece...
...In the same category belongs a cane I found on the Ponte Vecchio, which conceals an ivory dice box in the head...
...NAME ADDRESS CITY...
...I T I I I . \ Ir T I I : , I I I : > L,,km;., I "p tk~ Ran~ dr'tall...
...Now I would like to use The American Spectator to ask for help...
...Carter's trip to Japan...
...3) Wilcox, R.R.: "Sexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Disease Patterns in Male Homosexuals," British Jourhal of Venereal Diseases 57: 167, 1981...
...But 1 still, when the spirit moves, swing it happily down the street...
...Some hostesses also worry about carelessly wielded sticks sweeping away their chachkas...
...Richard Brookhiser New York, New York Cry for Help In my university days in the United States, I used to read The American Spectator for enjoyment...
...We have come to expect better...
...Former President Jimmy Carter turned up in Harlem, hammer in hand, to rebuild a derelict tenement dwelling and to give personal testimony to some weird facet of his New Age Christian esotery...
...The main pathway for a virus to go from one animal to another is through feces, usually by intraspecies' mouth-to-anus contact...
...2) William, D.C.: "Hepatitis and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Gay Men and 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1984 Lesbians," Sexually Transmitted Diseases 8 (supp): 330, 1981...
...But let us hear from you today...
...No," I said, "this is an affectation...
...The authors then make "an intelligent guess" that gays are also responsible for hepatitis...
...We are denied the advantage of filing joint income-tax returns...
...If he could correlate his boyish nostalgia for movies with his adult conviction that Cinema will never be an art-form, he may yet enjoy such classics as Children of Paradise and thus become a critic...
...Metzger's attention a recent article in the British Medical Journal-"AIDS: An Old Disease from Africa...
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...What he had was a keen painter's-eye (no great asset), a sufficient fund of common sense or humor, and a canny sense of who his mentors were Otis Ferguson (late of the New Republic) and Jim Agee (a friend at Time)--these were the true pioneers of American movie criticism...
...I was given the near-hopeless task of working up a viable "aesthetic theory" for pop art...
...YES...
...The prize of the collection is a thick, black-shafted stick with a gold top, a present from my mother-in-law who found it in a Cincinnati antique shop...
...As for the disease itself, with no easy way to go from host to host, many fatal viruses, dependent upon this route of contagion, either died out or were, more likely, reduced to sub-clinical levels in the human population...
...The Sociological Critic Two cheers for John Podhoretz's refreshing men culpa as a movie critic "Confessions of a Critic" (TAS, September 1984...
...August 4, 1981...
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...it only goes with tails...
...Arvin, a critic and author, will have to live with this infamy for the rest of his life...
...Buchanan and Muir, to a whore house either...
...We are denied the right to a support organization at Southern Methodist University because they find us to be "at variance" with their , "Christian" philosophy, although atheists, Hindus, and Buddhists are permitted such organizations...
...A NEW KIND OF ART MAGAZINE We operate on a simple premise...
...J. Gordon Muir, "Gay Times and Diseases," can deduce from this some shrill and hysterical arguments for the repeal of the Bill of Rights...
...The situation here is desperate, and we will owe our lives to all who help us...
...More informal still is a black stick with a crocodile-shaped handle, and my former girlfriend's gift, now sadly corroded, but still serviceable...
...Edwards in this issue and perhaps re-read his own (by the way, one of the aims of the framers of the Constitution was to promote the general welfare...
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...We relish it, we celebrate it, we argue about it...
...Surely Mr...
...Regarding hepatitis, we pointed out that the B variety is now largely a homosexual venereal disease (consult the British Journal of Venereal Diseases vol...
...We are as good as (and yes, perhaps better than) the Buchanans and the Muirs whether they like it or not...
...Conservative discussion of this issue is emotional and melodramatic...
...t~n\ irllnllR'lllal hazards,, add nlarkt,t IFt~;tablhtlcb...
...This is why the claim that AIDS "isn't anyone's fault" is so phony...
...wise sound intellects...
...To us the world of the fine and decorative arts is joyful and alive...
...The expensive contraption is the epitome of New Age Liberal idealism, its advocates even having rejected the Reaganites' plans for fitting it with pay toilets in fulfillment of their pay-as-you-go philosophy...
...history to be convicted of raping his wife, despite the fact that feminists have argued passionately that every child in the land is the offspring of a rapist...
...Richard Edwards Dallas, Texas J. Gordon Muir replies: In reply to Dr...
...But Manny Farber...
...Patrick J. Buchanan and Dr...
...So desperate had Mr...
...Imagine, describing the average Americano as "noisy...
...His efforts to include others in his mistakes, however, are subject to correction...
...There is not only a solid scientific argument that these sub-human practices revived by homosexuals iban actually re-create "new" diseases, but also that it doesn't take more than just them doing it to re-create "new" human pandemics which eventually could infect us all...
...They are carriers of incalculable numbers of infectious agents...
...I.IBEC.\I' I-;., . , . d b~ /~ L...
...Marjorie Farber San Francisco, California Raising Canes T. John Jamieson's essay on the welldressed conservative ("Dressed to Kill: The Conservative Exterior," TAS, August 1984) did well to mention that important article of apparel, the cane...
...We discover that it still simmers...
...Possibly he should return to North Oaks, Minnesota and conduct the kind of front porch campaign that served the great Harding so well and McKinley before that...
...CE Jr)fiN.q( iN Phrcn',ml b 3 B /JE/.II ? ;R771 t ,. t/?/L\ P-h' Adopted an ~uild thv I ,.'n o! lilt' ~ cnlur...
...If it does why is it not referenced in the article...
...Heresy...
...That piece of impertinence notwithstanding, late in the month Jimmy went into a dreadful snit when he perceived the President's remarks on the September 20 bombing of our Beirut Embassy as a criticism of the Carter 6dministration's stewardship of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...About timd" declared others...
...Gay Dallas" is discharged from a dreary little job not for being gay but for daring to be publicly gay...
...Edwards, and please learn to speak from a factual basis...
...one asked me when I showed up to her party, cane in hand...
...Green a disciple of leftist flumdiddle, he now has no one left to listen to him...
...53, p. 190, 1977 and vol...
...Finally, not only did Mr...
...Well, then," said she, "will you please leave your affectation in the hall...
...4) Harry, J., de Vail, W.B.: TheSocial Organization of Gay Males (New York: Praeger, 1978...
...Barry wants to see a real example of "shrillness" and "bigotry" he should read the letter from Mr...
...This month his gaga corpse was quoted in London's Sunday Observer as having said that Ronald Reagan is " a m e n a c e . . , as extreme as anyone in the Kremlin" and that Americans are "noisy and incredibly ignorant of the world...
...Gay rights per se are without merit...
...et al: "The Gay Report on Sexually Transmitted Disease," American Journal of Public Health 71: 1004, 1981...
...Featuring leading scholar:, in t't lllllllllit'N f.rt.st ~cience...
...We don't want you to miss a single beautiful page...
...cried some...
...In the tone of this article, one is reminded of the more extreme elements of the environmental movement, trembling with prophecies of doom lest some new pollutant enter the atmosphere...
...I did...
...lidt.lllt,~ and exclusive-us(" fi)re.stlands, ciipllal Iorillatil~ll, trade p.lick, s. and t'onst,r\'alion...
...Thus, it would be no surprise to see certain "extinct" diseases, such as typhus, cholera, and plague suddenly reappear in a town which (let's say for religious reasons), decided to throw its garbage and toilet waste back into the public streets again...
...William Rider became the first husband in U.S...
...With some friends I have formed a small group to help alleviate the severe drought this area of Africa is experiencing...
...I suggest that Buchanan and Muir are not truly concerned with morality anyway...
...Cane-owning is not without problems...
...The effect was similar to the virtual wiping out, during more recent times, of bacterial pandemics due to yet another uniquely human custom, also now taken for granted, and that is public sanitation...
...One thing seems sare: She at least will not have to despair like her 82-year-old heroine faced with the election of FDR, " I don't want to die and leave the country in the hands of the Democrats...
...Auden, I stumbled on a near-unknown English philosopher, R.G...
...We are both college graduates with graduate degrees...
...Perhaps the time has come for hiding...
...Perhaps she could realize her goal by claiming that she is an intellectual, inattentive to matters of dress, and more absorbed with philosophical inquiries into questions of the sublime and the beautiful or of supply-side economics...
...And if you're the kind of person who likes to examine, re-examine and crossexamine our culture, you will love ART & ANTIQUES...
...Tillinghast's unauthorized report led to his unfortunate jugging...
...For starters, Mr...
...Carter ever apologize for his Nicaraguan yawp or for criticizing a sitting American President during Mr...
...Thank you.-- Wilson Synchollecker Simango, Livingstone Zambia BUREAUCRACYvs...
...I got my first cane in college, as a gift from my girlfriend--a socialist, but with good instincts (she is now slightly to the right of me...
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...Four color printing throughout...
...Since then, I have acquired several more...
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...Our goal is to get it exactly right, and our readers expect no less...
...Oversized proportions, like the great magazines of another age...
...So be it...
...C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Gay Times Not explained in Patrick J. Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir's "Gay Times and Diseases" (TAS, August 1984) is how homosexual behavior by itself is probably alone responsible for recreating new diseases, such as AIDS...
...Beautiful magazines cost money...
...Of his three categories of critic (Consumerist, Academic, and Sociological) the first two are justly noted and dismissed...
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...ENVIRONMENT Robert T. Deacon M.Bruce)ohn.~L h,,,,,+.,,,,+ /g l ~ l i l t , ~ ' l l / i , l A ' t , x t ~ Itll I%%'II11 1"1 iilll PI gl I1 Pill Ill RI %1 tiN( It FORESTL.~N I)S Public and Privme E(iltud by R()BERT "[ [ )E.-\L'( )N find M. I'/RI...
...Publisher Robert Giroux uncovers the only authentic like nesses of William Shakespeare...
...Now things have changed, and thanks to the Solomonic wisdom of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Demetrius P. Agretalis, the Republic's first turkey-basterconceived love child will have a proper male role model...
...Nevertheless when t h e debate over this issue is reduced to scenarios of death and contamination, reasonable discourse is impossible...
...Our group needs old clothes...
...The answer may be that conservative leaders, who personally know better, allow the rabble to have this one nasty bigotry for fear they will lose their support on other issues that really matter...
...In Maine young punks go free without even posting bond after committing murder, because their victim.happens to be gay...
...57, p. 196, 1980...
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...If the polls tell us anything it is that the more he campaigns the lower he slumps in the esteem of the electorate...
...Truman, you rascal...
...I have a slimmer stick, of similar design, which will accompany a tux, or a Prince of Wales suit provided I wear a dark tie (or one that's bright red...
...There's so much talk of socialism around here that those in power have v!rtually forgotten that we have had no rain...
...Perhaps a more appropriate quote from a nineteenth-century writer would be: "Cruel the power that bids us live our lives devoid of grace...
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...t 1, ,i h - ~ Iq 1~3 pACIFIC INSTITUTE I-OR I'L BI IL POI F . I RI b! \RL I I THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1984 47 WAS JACKSON POLLOCK ANY GOOD...
...In Oklahoma City Mr...
...The other from the Book of Job: "Out of the darkness He bringeth out to light the shadow of death...
...Greene's only justification for describing the Americano as noisy is that by comparison the British male is quite restrained, usually owing to the fact that he is so unaccustomed to speaking in mixed company and that, be he like Mr...
...Kevin Barry New York, New York I have read with gasping disbelief the Buchanan-Muir article, "Gay Times and Diseases...
...Author Mark Helprin looks lovingly on our greatest public work of art, the Statue of Liberty...
...Now if Mr...
...ART&ANTIQUES ART & ANTIQUES is published by Allison Publications, Inc...
...If the subject's Georgian silver, the writer's M. E K. Fisher...
...Where are the studies to support these reckless statements...
...The article states that there is "good evidence" to support the idea of life-style changes for homosexuals...
...hi~t.r...
...eSports fans throughout the West were disappointed when Iran again delayed its long-awaited offensive against Iraq, both powers settling instead for the more conventional Islamic tactic of ambushing civilian tankers in the Persian Gulf...
...oThe senescence of Graham Greene continues to be exploited by unscrupulous journalists...
...In addition to maintaining successful, professional careers we find time to visit hospitals and nursing homes, and we always extend whatever help we can to whomever is in need regardless of their sexual preference...
...Fear not lads, we want neither your disease-free, pristine bodies nor your precious children...
...Peter Metzger, Ph.D...
...Yet just as in this populace, so in the homosexual populace the majority are not promiscuous or diseased...
...C. Africa...
...and let him bring his friend Mr...
...We are building a dormitory for the enfeebled that will cost $45,000--we need to raise $26,000 from outside sources...
...Each issue is a work of art in itself...
...Why on this one issue does moderation and reasonable argument seem to escape consideration...
...we need powdered milk...
...But there must be something wrong with an aesthetic theory which lumps all the rest of us under the wastebasket term "Sociological...
...Our "intelligent gu~s" ~)aaetr~a~5 the,raoalr of spread of the non-A, non-B hepatitis...
...AN ENVIRONMENT OF ASTONISHING BEAUTY Great works and great writers deserve a spectacular magazine, and we deliver it...
...Stein, whose Adlai Stevenson bow ties had for years placed him above suspicion in the Washington community, is the independent counsel who issued a 385-page report last month vindicating White House counsel Edwin Meese of all charges and rumors against him, including the cuff-link caper...
...Likewise, it is today no surprise to those who understand epidemiology to see that when a small population among us decides to revive the subhuman practice of mouth-to-anus contact, the way homosexuals do, that a heretofore unknown but not truly extinct virus, such as AIDS, should suddenly reappear in that population...
...Hem, hem...
...the form was pioneered by Robert Warshow and Manny Farh,~ Robert Warshow possibly...
...The only cane I ever found appropriate for spring and summer was a Chinese bamboo, with carved animal heads peeking out of the shaft (their behinds are visible on the other side...
...Eclectic, t r a d i t i o n a l , even " l i t e r a r y " sensibilities--in every way opposed to the mere social sciences--these were the models which Manny Farber set himself...
...You may have thought the controversy over Pollock was long over...
...In London an Iranian diplomat discomfited residents of an unusually quiet neighborhood by slaughtering a sheep in a curbside ritual in front of his domicile, and now there is evidence that the Ayatollah's holy disciples may have infiltrated the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries...
...To others we leave the tasks of self-conscious criticism and art world orthodoxy...
...Sister Boom-Boom is no more typical of the gay community than Sam Donaldson is typical of the world of arts and letters...
...More lascivious pictures of the former Miss America, Vanessa Williams, have appeared in Penthouse magazine, and now come reports that somehow the foul Mr, Guccione has procured shots of Miss Williams scantily clad in leather and chains for his January issue...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) evidence of lifestyle changes, he could start by reading the article by the Pattisons in the December 1980 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry...
...Though Miss Loftin had paid child support over the years, young Sparkle Christel's mother would not allow visitation privileges, fearing as she did for Sparkle's moral life...
...gl wt'rnIlR?lll-lllilll{l~t'd forc'stlall(l...
...That, Miss Santmyer, I think you need not worry about...
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...But no, thwack, thwack, and these professionally trained conservationists had created coonburger...
...Yet did Mr...
...l am shocked that a publication dedicated to truth and valid information would pay for and publish this tissue of untruth and innuendo...
...All of the statistics cited in the article can be applied proportionately to certain segments of the heterosexual populace...
...Joining the fray in ART & ANTIQUES are Motherwell, Wyeth, Updike, Buckley, Warhol, Frankenthaler, Kristol and a half-score of others...
...Collingwood (Principles of Art, 1938)--which 1 recommend to Mr...
...I can only conclude from the above-mentioned references that Buchanan and Muir are associating with the wrong homosexuals, and I resent the suggestion that they are in any way qualified to make judgments regarding the homosexual community...
...For (continued on page 47) THE CONTINUING CRISIS oSeptember has vanished, and wherever the Hon...
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...Edwards I can only extend pity that he chooses to put his name to the nonsense he has written...
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...One can only wish Miss Santmyer many years to enjoy this late-coming fame and good fortune...
...It was goofball Carter at his best, dressed like a garbage man, smiling like a lunatic, promising to take his tool box next to Nicaragua where "We've got a lot of friends . . . . We want the folks down there to know that some American Christians love them and that we don't all hate them...
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...oPeace group~ derived surprisingly little comfort from the Navy's admission that between a quarter and a third of its Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles are unserviceable...
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...At 6 ' 4 " , I rarely find one tall enough...
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...Only humans don't have such lethal recurrent viral pandemics (flu is our worst) and there's a good reason: Viruses can't live outside their host animals for very long...
...It is ignorant to equate the two: Warshow wrote and thought like a sociologist...
...I and my lover of 15 years have never been to a bath house (or, Messrs...
Vol. 17 • November 1984 • No. 11
