Word: westering
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...insistent demand for affection without the traditional supporting structure has dangers of its own. The pioneering sociologist Edward Wester-marck observed that "marriage rests in the family and not the family in marriage." The corollary used to be that the family existed for many practical purposes beyond love. To base it so heavily on love?including the variable pleasures of sexual love?is to weaken its stability...
WITHOUT fanfare or advance publicity, R?? Loewinsohn became the first poet in Harvard?? history to truck into Sanders Theatre on a motorcycle. Kevin Starr called the gesture "apocalyptic??? Loewinsohn called it "an objectification of his ???ture" (on Duncan and Ginsberg for Starr's Wester??? Lit. course). Possibly, the motorcycle entry spea??? as well for Loewinsohn's own poetry...