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...well-practiced heterosexual and father of four grown offspring, I should like to hazard the guess that a major contributing factor to homosexuality (male and female) in Anglo-American society is the still dominant Pauline ("better to marry than to burn") ethic...
...situation in which violence is used, almost always innocent people are hurt. Even assuming that a guilty person is occasionally given his just deserts, is it worth the cost to innocent people? The same principle should apply here as in law. Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence has always assumed a man is innocent until proven guilty. This assumption exists to protect the innocent. If an occasional guilty person goes free hereby, it is better than having innocent people adjudged guilty...
...MODERN POET edited by Ian Hamilton. 200 pages. Horizon. $5.95. An Anglo-American anthology of criticism and poetry from a little magazine, The Review, including interviews with William Empson and Robert Lowell...
...perhaps a dozen words. The fact of their currency in what was once known as polite conversation raises some unanswered linguistic questions. Which, really, is the rose, and which the other name? Is "lovemaking" a euphemism for the four-letter word that describes copulation? Or is this blunt Anglo-Saxonism a dysphemism for making love? Are the old forbidden obscenities really the crude bedrock on which softer and shyer expressions have been built? Or are they simply coarser ways of expressing physical actions and parts of the human anatomy that are more accurately described in less explicit terms? It remains...
...Iowa picked up some unprintable language-which, of course, is against FCC regulations. Upshot of it all: the Humble Oil & Refining Co., the ship's owner, banned all voice transmissions, not only for Mrs. Bentley but for every reporter on the trip. "I just used a common Anglo-Saxon expletive," she was quoted as saying, "to express my impatience with a rewrite...