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...Using a strange methodology, she does notdiscuss the texts," he writes. "She pits themagainst each other in pairs, a woman's textagainst a man's text...
...board would balk at reforming itself. Among other things, investors wanted a smaller board with fewer members over the age of 70. Grace arrived in a wheelchair last week to address his last board meeting as chairman. Weakened by radiation treatments, he was unable to read aloud the full text in which he condemned "the scheme" used to oust him from power. But when the meeting was over, Grace and eight other company directors, most of them over 70, had nonetheless agreed to leave the board...
...section on the bizarre "Fruit Machine," a device used to detect homosexuality in Canadian civil servants during the 1950s by measuring the how wide a man's pupils dilated when he was shown a picture of a naked man. Such seemingly archaic trivia is engrossing, but most of the text focuses on major gay historical events such as the Oscar Wilde trial or the formation...
...Past is formatted like a high school history book. The majority of the text is historical narrative, while smaller sections profile major players in gay and lesbian history like Marguerite Yourcenar and Michel Foucault or present excerpts from important and representative texts about the gay experience of the period. The first time Miller mentions an important figure, his or her name is highlighted with bold type. This familiar form makes the book incredibly accessible and straight-forward...
...highlighting people literally and within his text, Miller emphasizes the actions of individuals over events or trends in gay and lesbian history. Miller's stress on the person serves several purposes. First and most sublime, this tactic is reader friendly. We love to read personal narratives...