poem for Panteus and, addressing him said now, "You came in and knelt beside me quickly on one knee and your right hand dropped and touched my foot; I felt it grip around my ankle. But your face was hidden, your head was against my thigh. I took your helmet off. . . and began to feel your head with my hands, tangling my fingers in your hair . . . I undid the straps of your brestplate. . . I pushed you away from me to arm's length, so that I could look at you... We must have seen one another often before, naked, but we had never looked so close. You took your tunic right off and laid it by the sword. I saw no blemish on you Panteus."

He compared his lover to a statue by Polykleitos and they both described that admiration and delight for male beauty so characteristically Hellenic. They looked and looked unashamed in "looking and being glad.” and then kissed. Then the King asked,

'What now? For we are neither of us boys, but grown men'." And Panteus laughed saying "very gently: 'Now we will go to sleep, Kleomenes, and speak of these things again in the morning.' So we lay down and I spread my cloak over the both of us. We were close enough for each to lay his head on the other's arm. And it was a most sweet sleep we had."

At the conclusion of Miss Rosenthal's delicately tasteful reading a bouquet of yellow roses was presented her in homage to "The Patterns of Sparta."

The Sunday afternoon session was held in the large hillside home of two members of the Corporation, a delightful tea preceded by an hour and a half of unusually well-channelled discussion on religion and the homosexual. There was sharp differentiation made between religion and the Church. There was also a clear line drawn between those who found it not only

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possible and comfortable, but desirable, to find affiliation with one of the orthodox churches and those who felt that an individually-developed philosophy of living was sufficient.

An anthropologist present cited the part played by homosexuality in various preliterate religious practices. A man who lived much in the Near East told of the generally permissive religious attitudes among Arabian Mohammedans. A very poised young women, theological student in a seminary, stated that although she by no means expected her own particular approach to Christianity to meet with universal, or even general approval that she saw no reason why non-believers in Christianity should be so compulsively disturbed, as they often are with the churched. The chairman for the day pointed out that some of the homosexual's widespread rejection of religion may come about as a form or retaliation for what he conceives to be his own rejection by society because of his homosexuality. therefore, more an emotional than a reasoned conclusion.

It was generally felt by those attending the many busy 1958 Midwinter meetings that this was indeed "the best of them all." Comment in particular was made that at last the homosexual was not just sitting around listening to a lot of people, capable or otherwise, tell him things, but that instead he was doing his own thinking. announcing his own conclusions, passing his own judgments on homosexual and heterosexual alike. It was said that this new approach marked a coming-of-age most significant and quite outside the realm of things thought possible only a very few years earlier.

The consensus was that if homosexuality IS "A Way of Life," for many or for a few it is alone by such methods as these that the right paths will be discovered; that the homo-