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punctuation) Well, for one thing, turn duce offspring is, however. And we must the pages of BARE and enjoy the culture remember that "Over and beneath it alland edifying photos of professional this exquisite, tasteful, witty, and models frying eggs and cleaning house ful stratum-is a profound discontent that in nylon nothing. This is normality. neither Robin nor his friends ever allow Huzzah.

THE REPORTER ran a nicely written little thing a while back (Jan. 21, '53) by Marya Mannes in its Views and Reviews. It was a short character sketch of "Robin", an interior decorator and a lot of other stereotyped things. The prose was clever and the picture vivid; Robin became a real person in just a few hundred words. The only trouble was that Marya wanted us to understand that Robin was but one of a whole flock of queer birds. Never once did she accuse him of naughtinesses under his carefully clipped hedges or in his "garden duplex in New York's East 60's furnished in exquisite taste in a mixture of Regency and modern, run by a pale and graceful Negro, animated by a huge and uncannily sensitve brown poodle, and free of such blurring traces of feminine presence as stockings drying in the bathroom and a clutter of jars. Even the canapés are better than the ones in the homes of the married." That last was a concession along with a cluster of tributes to his taste, but she ends up cautioning us that taste is not all: the ability to pro-

themselves to admit, for they consider themselves in nearly all ways superior to their fellows. They are, for all their success, not in the mainstream of life, for the one quality absent in their world is humanity." At first, the reader is delighted to turn from the latrine-wall scrib-

blings of BARE and read the comments of an intelligent and adept writer. But upon finding that he, as a deviate, lacks humanity, feels superior, discontented modern, he begins to wonder if there is and, what's more, mixes Regency with a difference between the prejudices of BARE's sniggering scribe and the urbane, highly colleged cosmopolite from THE REPORTER. Essentially they share the same unfounded bigotry and have a mutual distaste for statistics. It's not

merely a poor trick of argumentation to turn Marya's words around and say that the heterosexual's attitude toward the one of the greatest qualities lacking in and BARE are viciously ignorant despite sex habits of others is humanity. She the evident fact that they set aside one of their best friends who are queersnight a week for slumming with some Despite her background, Marya really writes for BARE. Pretty words don't make inaccuracies more acceptable.

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