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It was bad enough when California courts ordered Novelist Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, to pay $75,000 last April to Hollywood Psychologist Paul Bindrim. He said he was defamed by Touching, Davis' 1971 novel involving an encounter group whose gig is communal nudity in warm pools. Now...
Davis contracted with Doubleday in 1969 to write a novel about two women who, in search of something missing in their lives, attend a "nude encounter workshop." As part of her research, Davis spent 20 hours at the Los Angeles center where Bindrim pioneered the "nude marathon," a therapy in...
Then, consider the conventional routes to success, fame and glamor. "One quarter of all Harvard undergraduates want to be president," a prominent administrator said recently. A conservative estimate, perhaps. While the Oval Office may be a nice place to spend the summer, contemporary trends indicate Harvard types may encounter stumbling...
Billed by WHRB celebrity Dave Scheper as "the Harvard version of the national championship," the contest proved to be a seesaw encounter throughout most of the first 20 minutes of action.
"He is the creation of my concern, not my sympathy or empathy," says Kosinski, 46. "He is the enemy of everything I stand for, a point zero from which all my other characters depart." As Kosinski sees him, Chance is a victim, innocent and nonverbal, of a corporate state that...