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BARRAGE of advertising notwithstanding, neither of the Bach Society's two soloists appeared last Saturday night. Both Cambridge-born basso Justino Diaz and pianist Tedd Joselson were absent from the Sanders stage; their loss and the identity of their replacements was announced in the inaudible mumble characteristic of concert-hall speeches...
...December ruling, which the National Gay Task Force called an "instant cure," came after intense lobbying by homosexual groups and endorsement of the change by all the A.P.A.'s 68 district branches. In a statement accompanying the announcement of their vote (13 for change; two abstentions and four absent), the trustees declared that many homosexuals show no signs of psychopathology, are satisfied with their sexual preferences, and can function effectively in society. It therefore seemed inappropriate to call them "sick." Those who are troubled by their homosexuality, the board said, would henceforth be described as suffering from a "sexual...
...World War II, in the sixties--when young people began to question, and say, "I want to do what I want to do, what I like to do." Well, that caught on in a way [laughs]--strangely enough. And so you got the young auto workers--young auto workers--absent on Mondays or Fridays: "Fuck it, doing all that stuff!" And of course, Lordstown is the great example. And the older guys, their fathers, the Depression people, said, "You got to," 'cause they never question. So they started thinking, as they're about to retire, "That's shit...
...takes a pamphlet from his bookshelf and begins reading a passage from the Rhodesian criminal code: "Anyone is guilty of a criminal offense if he is absent from the farm during working hours, if he becomes intoxicated, if he refuses to obey any command of a master..." The list goes on. The punishment for such offenses ranges from caning and thrashing to two or three months in prison. Anyone unemployed for more then 30 days is also a criminal, subject to work on a farm for three months without pay, to receive "training" in such skills as digging ditches...
Brokers are further unnerved by the suddenness of the plunge. As recently as late October, the market had managed to look sound; hot analysts were being wooed by hefty salary offers, and small investors, long absent from the market, were starting to nibble again. Now many of the analysts are worried once more about their jobs. No fewer than 22 member firms of the N.Y.S.E. are on the Big Board's "early warning" list, meaning that they have been advised that their capital position has deteriorated dangerously and that they had better do something about the situation -and fast...