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What does this all mean? This winter has already been schizophrenic weatherwise, with mild and freezing stretches alternating through December and January. And snowfalls that bewildered maintenance crews with their snowy flake yesterday, as heliomaniacs suffered an early demise this month...
...Author Weideger suggests that many of the troubles attributed to menstruation can actually be traced to the taboo. The idea is not new. Some 50 years ago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead observed that in Samoa, where the menstrual taboo is mild, discomfort during periods is slight. The idea of severe cramps and pain, she wrote, "struck all Samoan women as bizarre when it was described to them...
...language sacred, it does yield some ground in the area of the profane. Under "Obscenity, Vulgarity and Profanity," the manual explains that the Times will continue to present the news, as Times Patriarch Adolph S. Ochs decreed in 1896, "in language that is parliamentary in good society." But a mild profanity like Hell or damn, the manual says, "is really not offensive to a great degree" as long as it is not used as a matter of course...
There was another mild embarrassment for both Kissinger and Rabin last week when the Chicago Sun-Times printed excerpts from a forthcoming book by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan-a nonpracticing lawyer who has served seven years as diplomatic correspondent for the Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz. The book, tentatively titled From Confrontation to Disengagement, purportedly draws on Kissinger's private conversations with newsmen and on secret minutes of his meeting with Israeli leaders. Although it was banned by censors, a revised edition was later approved. According to Golan, Kissinger criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon as lacking strength...
...that most smokers "can generally be persuaded to douse the weed with a mild adjuration." My four-year experience as a nonsmoker making such requests on the Boston MBTA includes two actual physical assaults...