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...SITUATIONAL-EXPERIMENTAL. He is a man who engages in homosexual acts without any deep homosexual motivation. The two Kinsey reports found that almost 40% of white American males and 13% of females have some overt sexual experience to orgasm with a person of their own sex between adolescence and old age. Yet a careful analysis of the figures shows that most of these experiences are only temporary deviations. In prisons and occasionally in the armed forces,* for example, no women are available. Thus the men frequently turn to homosexual contacts, some in order to reassert their masculinity and recapture...
Attempting to orient the anti-war movement toward overt support of the NLF would, however, be unwise, and perhaps disastrous. American support of the NLF will have no effect on the course of South Vietnamese politics, yet it could divide the movement in the United States enough to assure the indefinite continuation...
Without making an overt reference to today's Vietnam Moratorium in the U.S., Thien said, "I am determined against a coalition government in South Vietnam and an unconditional withdrawal of the allies when South Vietnam is not yet ready to defend itself...
...Borrowed Time. To her surprise, the psychiatrist encountered stubborn resistance not from the dying but from the quick. The reaction of physicians ranged from annoyance to overt hostility. Once this wall of official resistance was breached, Dr. Kübler-Ross found that the dying themselves were only too willing to talk. In four years the seminar has heard from 150 patients; there have been only three refusals. The author now understands why. "To live on borrowed time," she writes, "to wait in vain for the doctors to make their rounds, lingering on from visiting hours to visiting hours, looking...
Those who supported the withdrawal resolution, though they too called on the Faculty to take an overt political stand, laid greater emphasis on the unique nature of the case, and tried to reassure the Faculty members who feared that the resolution would be interpreted as the view even of those who voted against...