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CONSOLIDATED FOOTNOTES FOR DADT CHAPTER 1 (including new notes since publication)
I have a new blogspot entry on my "day of infamy" 1961 William and Mary Expulsion, here.
0 (for Introduction): actually, the famous 1890 essay in Harvard Law Review by Supreme Court justices Brandeis and Warren had said:
"The protection of society must come mainly through a recognition of
the rights of the individual. Each man is responsible for his own acts
and omissions only. The common law law provides him with a weapon,
forged in the slow fire of the centuries and today fitly tempered to his
hand."
0 The notion of homosexuality as a "character disorder" (or "character flaw") is apparently discussed in Roman Catholic and Vatican papers regarding the entries of gays into seminaries or the ordination of priests with "homosexual tendencies" (that is, including "latent homosexuals" as discussed in this chapter). See http://www.doaskdotell.com/controv/catholic.htm (especially the last footnotes).
The recent research into the growth and biological maturation of the brains of teenagers comes into consideration. Boys start the neural pruning process about age 12 or 13, roughly as puberty starts to be reached. I was aware of being "different" at around age 8, when I had conformity problems in grade school (and a third grade teacher pushing me to compete like a boy), about the same time I was aware of my musical talent. The music would provide a world of emotion and feeling but would abstract it in such a way that ongoing and complementary social contacts were not as necessary. I was more aware of erotic interests in "attractive young men" by about age 12. That is about when the pruning starts. From my point of view, normal social interaction, responsiveness and ordinary everyday empathy and the competitiveness that could later be expressed in heterosexuality – girl friends, dating, wife, children, lineage, "pedigree" – all of this was superfluous. I had what I needed, but others did not what from me what they felt they needed or were entitled to in return, reciprocally. The pruning process makes the personality focused and efficient on its "core business" – it is very much analogous to a company's shedding workers when it downsizes and focuses more narrowly on its strengths. This sort of thing is always morally controversial, whenever done by either individuals or institutions. It is indeed ruthless. Perhaps this is related to what we recognize in medical and development circles as Asperger Syndrome, and what in more extreme forms becomes outright autism, especially in boys.
Christianity (especially in its Catholic forms – even as I was raised Baptist) seems to be trying to address this by saying, neglect of the everyday needs of others, even through one's own intrinsic nature, is sin (the actual sin of "Sodom and Gomorrah") and some people are less inclined to respond socially than others, and are thus victims of an "objective disorder" (however offensive this sounds). That is why they need God, why they need Jesus, and why there is salvation by Grace. But then, because of his own demons, whatever they are, anyone needs God. Is this the message of someone like Mel Gibson?
(See "Your Teenager's Mind" by Nora Underwood, in the November 2006 issue of The Walrus, a Canadian publication.)
But on Aug 8, 2006 Ann Coulter, on "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch," claimed that former President Clinton's behavior shows "some level of latent homosexuality." http://www.nbc4.com/politics/9577408/detail.html
1 Evelyn Ruth Duvall, Facts of Life and Love for Teenagers (New York: Associated Press, 1956).
1a The Associated Press provided a story on April 5, 2004 of a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics that children under 3 who spend significant time watching television have an increased risk of attention deficit disorder (ADD) later in childhood, especially if exposed to the fast-paced images of many programs. The Academy recommended that children under 2 not watch television. Perhaps the effect is greater on boys. Suzanne Fields, in a syndicated column in the April 19, 2004 Washington Times, "How TV can 'rewire' brains of tiny tots: The perils of too much television," characterizes the generational culture war as "tiny tots arrayed against their moms and dads," who rely on television for adult intellectual stimulation with tots in the living room, rather than giving full attention to their kids.
1b The bizarre timing of the dean's calling me in cannot be over-emphasized. William and Mary held classes as usual the Friday (Nov. 24) after Thanksgiving, 1961. I believe that I had an English class in Washington Hall at 1 PM and a Physics recitation at 2 PM. The dean probably expected me to find the note on my dorm door around 3 PM and to report to Wren Hall immediately. I don't recall where I was from 3 PM until 5 PM, when I returned to the dorm and found the handwritten note on the door. I believe that I arrived around 5:20 PM and that my meeting with him lasted until around 5:45. He must have waited for me in his office for the two hours, and must have been very determined to confront me with something more important than legal patent medicines in a dorm room. So I now believe that he would have "asked" about the possibility of my homosexuality if I had not quickly tried to outflank him with the admission of just "latent homosexuality." I think now that this was a "No Way Out" (after the 1987 movie) situation.
The book text says that my parents met me at Rogers Hall and that we walked to the parking lot. I distinctly remember being told about my expulsion as we rounded the corner in front of the Wren Building. I suppose that the car was a more private place to break the bad news. Sometimes, to my memory it seems that I may have waited for my parents on that corner, but the book text is likely the most accurate. I am not sure, by the way, how many schools today would have separate positions for Dean of Men and Dean of Women. The concept seems antiquated to me.
1c Looking ahead to Chapter 4: If a soldier in the U.S. military today said that he or she was a "latent homosexual," would the adjective "latent" rebut the presumption that the solider engages in homosexual acts or has a propensity to do so? (This refers to the wording of the "don't ask don't tell" policy developed for gays in the military in 1993, to be covered later.) The "propensity" gets to be a problem. Actually, while living in Dallas in the 1980s I would meet an ex nuclear weapons officer who would tell me he was cashiered from the Army around 1969 for "latent homosexuality," but as my experience in Chapter 2 will show, the military generally would care much less about this during the days of Vietnam and conscription than it would later. Sometimes the military was a safer place for gays than many civilian environments.
Lawyers who work on the ban have told me that usually the "rebuttal" would require that the servicemember show that he or she is not "gay." The same would have been true in my situation. I posed this question at a symposium on July 13, 2005 at the HRC building in Washington DC, sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
1d This whole chapter seems to echo McCarthyism, but "Tall Gunner Joe" McCarthy, actually a Democrat from Wisconsin, had been somewhat discredited by Senate hearings in 1954, early in the first Eisenhower administration. Nevertheless, the emphasis on social conformity, especially with respect to gender roles, had continued into the 1960s, although the first clue of what would come could have come from Betty Friedan. It took to the late 60s for the very negative social attitudes about homosexuals as destructive so social order began to weaken significantly.
1e One other haunting question that has prevailed over the decades: why couldn't the Dean just separate me from my roommate? There probably were, by the end of November, some rooms available. That would have been a common sense "Judge Judy" type solution, and if implemented my whole life could have been very different. Maybe I would have become an MD and an epidemiologist by the time that AIDS surfaced in the 1980s! Ah, for parallel universes and dominions.
2 John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (New York: Harper, 1956).
2a Ch. 1 P. 15 pr. 2. I had an English teacher in Eleventh Grade who really advocated literary criticism as a valid and lucrative future career.
The nice thing about math and physics tests in high school was this: you didn't have to memorize anything, you just had to be able to work the problems.
2b Ch 1 P. 15. pr. 3 - general comment
Ironically, the capacity of my "heroes" to carry out the social obligations (like marrying and fathering) made them even more attractive to me.
Today, it strikes us as immoral that hundreds of thousands of young men would be sacrificed over political impasses, such as the "entangling alliances" before World War I (let alone Fascism and Communism). Go see a film like Legends of the Fall and be amazed at the impulse to patriotism over such non-personal ideals. Today, the challenge to make personal sacrifices for people one loves.
3 In a manner similar to Nazism, even the Japanese Empire before World War II had invented theories that Mongoloid peoples were biologically "evolved" at a greater distance from the apes.
4 Published by Garden City, 1928 and 1936.
5 Theodore Reich, The Greening of America (New York: Random House, 1970), pp. 59-86. Consciousness I had been preoccupied with an almost Luddite survivalist and religious values.
6 Sony Classics Pictures, Across the Sea of Time (1996).
7 As shown by the three columns of "Comparative Government" of the 1950 World Book Encyclopedia.
7a "Communism" is typically distinguished from "socialism" by the fact that communism advocates the use of force and violence, if "necessary," to seize property and return it to "the people."
8 See Frank Sulloway, Born to Rebel (New York: Random House, 1996), Sulloway predicts that younger children learn from their siblings and take more chances and often turn out to be more politically progressive (or, at times, collective)..
9 A model railroad exhibit on I-76 near Scranton, Pa.
10 Peter Wyden, Growing Up Straight (New York: Stein and Day, 1968).
10a Ch 1 P 18, fn 10: Even as recently as 1985, the American Bar Association has promoted a textbook that presented homosexuality as a pathology (despite the 1973 action by the American Psychological Association).
Interesting is the article "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men," in American Experiment Quarterly, Spring 2001 (she has authored a book by the same name). Check these out: "boys are politically incorrect…. There is a growing movement to save the males—by making them less masculine." But this ties into my later discussion of the "Tribunals" (around note 18).
10b The idea that society should rightfully challenge men's sexual instincts into traditional gender role performance in the context of marriage and family, is found in many older psychology and sociology text books. For example, there is J. Richard Udry's The Social Context of Marriage (J. R. Lippincott, 1966/1971) with chapter titles like "Development of Sex Roles" and "The Originis and Development of Heterosexuality" (sounds like Masters and Johnson, Heterosexuality??) Udry in fact recognizes the possibility of a biological basis for homosexuality and mentions identical twin studies. Most important, though, seems to be the greatest good for the greatest number, and that means that men learn their "masculine roles" (sometimes from family position) in such a way that their performance becomes habit and is no longer perceived to have a psychological cost. After the civil rights movement and Stonewall, it would take the discrediting of government (Vietnam, Watergate) to set up a social climate that began to question the moral warrant for government to socially engineer the sexual motives of the individual. But this is covered in Chapters 3 (polarities) and 5 (family values).
10c. On June 20, 2001 PBS ran a "Frontline" special, "Assault on Gay America," in which it was reported that the number of violent crimes against gays doubled between 1990 and 1998. The 1999 murder of Billy Jack Gather (by Steve Mullins, who supposedly, as testified in the trial, had a "secret" small town gay sex life himself—getting back to the Freudian idea of homophobia as suppressed homosexuality) in Alabama was covered, and Sociology Professor Kimmel from SUNY Stonybrook was featured. One survey in the Bay Area (even among college students) found that 10% admitted violence against gays and another 24% would respond to a proposition violently. Homophobia is presented as part of a superficial culture of "masculinity" that is particularly "American." Those who commit violence against gays often believe that doing so is part of their male "prerogative," defending the idea of "masculinity" which is surprisingly constricting in terms of self-expression. What I experienced at William and Mary (such as the taunts of brightly-colored clothes, and for that matter grade school through high school) was not as severe as in this video. In some ways youth violence against gays was not as severe during the McCarthyism days as later because behavior codes as a whole were stricter. But the particularly American "masculinity" cult seems to relate to environmental demands on young men to provide for families [with obligatory heterosexuality encapsulating the expressive "sacrifice"], particularly in lower income groups and today particularly in African-Americans. American society is particularly unwilling to inculcate a concept of functional bisexuality (as in other cultures), forcing a split between homosexuals and heterosexuals (which may explain the unusual difficulty of the issue for the American military, as discussed in Chapter 3).
11 "Program music," such as a lot of the tone poems of Liszt and Strauss, attempts to "tell a story"; abstract music follows established forms and communicates feelings in a structure. Opera, of course, is the most programmatic of all music.
11a Ch. 1 P. 20 pr. 2. Even today, Rachmaninoff provokes a certain nostalgia within me, even as works, at their best, as in the Third Piano Concerto (especially that cadenza, which I used to sight-read) and Symphony #2, have a monumental, relentless character.
11b I want to elaborate further on the "lashing out" incident where I returned the taunts by spreading rumors and making fun of (verbally "bullying") an epileptic student. Some of the horrific high school shooting incidents—Columbine and Santee (Santana High School)—apparently involved perpetrators who had been ostracized and sometimes bullied by other students for non-conformity, small size, or physical ineptitude. Generally these boys had access to guns and parents who were not properly attentive. (My parents were very attentive, but there was one 22-caliber rifle in the attic, which I had fired only once before the Army—so my immature retaliation was fortunately just verbal.) I must point out a couple of observations to anyone who happens upon this comment. One is that teenage boys often view physical size, sexual development and athletic capacity as indicative of a social "hierarchy" or "pecking order" or "food chain" that is broken up only by marriage in early adulthood. The other (particularly present in my situation) is that less "physical" boys are sometimes regarded as potential "burdens" on others (and idea that contributes to homophobia and may have contributed to the murder of Matthew Shepard).
The Santee incident is bound to stimulate "collective" arguments for gun control and Internet regulation (where the ability to publish worldwide with few resources and no supervision is viewed as a problem), whatever the constitutional provisions today.
President George W. Bush (March 2001) suggested that the Santee tragedy was engendered by a social climate of disrespect for life. I would regard this tragedy as having little to do with abortion, cloning, assisted suicide or similar issues and more with a badly, almost sadistically, misplaced idea of "meritocracy."
Even so, the influence of violence in the media is disturbing enough. I can remember being shaken by the rather tame Saturday morning "Movies for Kids" in the early 1950s, like The Clutching Hand.
11c The violent Chopin G Minor Ballade (used so effectively in the 50s horror film Mill of the Stone Women) figures into the denouement of Roman Polanski's The Pianist (USA-Focus films), here Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), while in tatters from surviving Warsaw by his wits (no sissy boy "artist" here), plays his way out of battle to freedom, to the screams and outbursts of the last scales and octaves.
11d Regarding the piano lessons: had the political climate of that era been kinder and gentler (that is, had there not been a Cold War pressuring boys into math and science if at all possible and with the stick of the draft over their heads—nobody assumes a "fundamental right" to grow up in a carefree era, as with Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation) – I might well have worked hard enough at piano to make music my "life's work" indeed (which the first piano teacher had once implored me to do). Could I have been like TheWB Everwood's precocious teenage character Ephram (Gregory Smith)? Well, I don't know if I ever learned the Beethoven Appassionata or Tempest sonatas or the Chopin "black key etude" (episode Feb 21, 2005), and no jazz; I did learn a lot of Rachmaninoff preludes) (I first mention piano in this chapter at the beginning of Section 02).
11e. On April 24, 2006 Everwood has a tremendous episode "The Land of Confusion." Ephram's piano teaching has grown into a class, and he stages an event for his students. At the same time, Andy arranges for Ephram to meet a concert pianist who could give him another shot at an audition. The pianist tells him that being at the top has caused him to neglect his family. Ephram decides to become a public school music teacher so that, among other things, he can have a real family life (with Amy, maybe).
Ephram has encouraged one of his students, Kyle, to audition for a scholarship at Julliard. On an earlier episode Kyle had effectively "come out" to Ephram in a private scene when challenged, and Ephram told Kyle that he should not deny himself the life that "he deserves."
This is all pretty uncanny for me. The family neglect thing rings true, as work v. family became a very serious issue even for a single person. But the idea of 18-year-old Ephram having a whole class blows me away. When I took piano lessons, the first music teacher (who would die suddenly of cancer in 1957 when I was in ninth grade; I would have a second teacher in north Arlington with a much more laid back style, and she would wind up losing her hearing) had Wednesday afternoon classes, in which we sometimes played for each other, but the main focus was teaching music literature. She would play records and taught us the rudiments of record care and high fidelity, 1950s style. Some of her records were large old 78s. Somehow the Thais Meditation by Jules Massenet, the brittle old 78, still plays in my mind. Later, I would take organ lessons from a Peabody (Baltimore, MD) student who was 18 (Ephram's age) at the time.
In substitute teaching I had some music assignments. A few times I encountered students (particularly vocal) capable of performing professionally, as good and mature as "the kids" in various films and series (TheWB and otherwise) today. One regular class had a tenth grader who actually wanted to start piano. But in middle school, discipline problems in a couple classes proved fatal. Being a music teacher in public school would be an enormous challenge; the teacher will have his or her performing choruses, madrigals, bands or orchestra (even jazz and guitar), and will encounter students with professional potential, but will also have classes with students with many learning problems. Teaching people to play or sing together in lower grades is a tremendous challenge and a pedagogical issue in itself. Future seasons of Everwood or a movie could do a lot with this situation.
12 Rick Weiss, "Scientists May Have Identified a Cause for Anxiety; Gene Seems to Influence Whether Bearers Are Chronically Worried or Confidently Calm," The Washington Post, Nov. 29, 1996, p. A20.
12a Christina Hoff Sommers, "Victims of Androgyny: How Feminist Schooling Harms Boys," American Enterprise, June 2000, p. 20, deals with the issue of educating rambunctious "pre-heterosexual" boys. Interesting the criticism of "forcing" boys to deal with feelings or comparisons of themselves to others. All-male environments for boys' educations are supported (particularly for boys from fatherless homes).
13 The College of William and Mary, 1961. It was a truism in high school and college that if you cheated on a test or paper, you "cheated yourself." That notion makes sense today when we talk about athletic cheating scandals, such as what rocked the University of Minnesota in 1999. But during the Cold War days, education was somewhat of a screening process (as it had long been in Europe), to determine who was meritocratically "qualified" for the good life, and for favored treatment with respect to the military draft.
13a. During recent years, we've heard a lot about academic cheating, such as with the basketball scandal at the University of Minnesota; in a few cases there have been criminal prosecutions. The Internet reportedly makes it easy for students to "cheat" or plagiarize term papers, where they can be bought or ghost-written. Media reports indicate that most of these pre-packaged Internet "faternity file" term papers for sale on the Web (often with blatant domain names) are poorly written and easily spotted.
13b Related to honor is the issue of homework. I started having regular homework in the 7th Grade (first year of Junior High School), when on a few occasions television programs were actually assigned (which I resented as infringing upon my own choice of entertainment). Now there is the new book by Etta Kralovec and John Buell, The End of Homework: How Homerwork Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children and Limits Learning. In 1901, homework was made illegal in California but became common after the Sputnik scare. The authors feel that homework works against disadvantaged children, especially boys with ADD or dyslexia, and disrupts family life. We could consider here home schooling, though, and the idea that homework really should be expected after grade school. Regular homework (both math and humanities), done honestly, helps teens at least begin to learn critical thinking, to look into an issue from the point of view of various ways different people would approach the issue rather than from finding a simple solution that gratifies immediate comfort needs.
13c The College of William and Mary in those days (1961) admitted many more men than women and had lower admission standards for men. As a result, men may have been sensitive about competition for women and been more concerned about symbolic threats to masculinity.
14 In "The Achievement of Love" in The Art of Loving (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956) Erich Fromm had already characterized my kind of hero-worship as "symbiosis." See the excerpt "The Achievement of Love" in Stone and Hoopers, Form and Thought in Prose (New York: Ronald Press, 1960), p. 505. This freshman college English anthology also includes Fromm's controversial "The Illusion of Individuality" on p. 198 (from Escape from Freedom, New York: Rinehart & Company, 1941), which had predicted that America itself was vulnerable to Fascism.
14a For a review of Splendor in the Grass, and another film/play Rain ("Miss Sadie Thompson") that we discussed, see this file.
14b In the freshman English 101 class (not advanced placement), which I had at 1 PM MWF and my roommate had already had with the same instructor at 8 AM (those dreaded 8 o'clock classes!), the instructor made a lot of the implications of "sexual impotence" in the T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The text is at http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html. Consider the opening: "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table."
15 In my own high school English, we had actually memorized the eight parts of the Elizabethan theater, including the proscenium doors! Another teacher admonished us, "Learn your facts about your authors!" as if we needed them for a popular children's card game. I wonder if I could remember a single question from a high school English test. (Other than 10th grade: Name the eight parts of the Elizabethan theater!, including the proscenium doors.)
15a. After the cases McCollum v. Board of Education (1948) and Zorach v. Clauson (1952) the law allowed public school religious classes only "off campus." The practice still occurs in some communities, as in the Virginia Shenandoah Valley. See Carol Morello, "Bible Breaks at Public Schools Faces Challenges in Rural Virginia," The Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2005.
15b See Daniel J. Wakin, "In Van Cliburn's Texas, a Battle To Keep Beethoven on the Radio." The New York Times, June 26, 2006. A Christian broadcasting company bought a classical music station from Kilgore College, that can no longer afford it.
16 Edward Pruden, Interpreters Needed (Philadelphia: Judson Press, 1951), p. 29. But the main factor, besides economic hardship and scapegoating, was probably Germany's inexperience with constitutional government.
17 The closest I can come to it is Merton Thompson's poem, "True Friend," on p. 106 of Poetic Ramblings (Nebraska: Morris Publishing, 1994).
17a. I have reconstructed the 1961 "friendship definition" theme at this link: http://www.doaskdotell.com/content/friend.htm
18 Tootsie, a 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman; directed by Sidney Pollack.
18A Ch 1 P 27, pr. 2: Tribunals? This was probably more a rite of passage than hazing in the usual sense of the concept. Check out the photoflash chamber and subsequent "body analysis" from Michael Crichton's 1970 novel and subsequent movie, The Andromeda Strain, or John Travolta's behavior in the 1985 film Staying Alive. Maybe Chricton will give the 21st century's practice of infection control in surgery some silly ideas: laser beams ("Epilight," or more recently, the dermal-static LightSheer, which has actually been approved by the FDA in 2000, as well as "TransDermal") could do some very thorough (and, compared to electrolysis, quick) scrubbing. Actually, none of this phases people today like it did the 50's generation that, however moralistic, secretly saw a person's body as his potential residue. After, consider how competitive cyclists and swimmers "peak." Or actors, who see changing their appearances as like a mouse-click selection of manipulative behaviors, for a customer audience who doesn't need to know the original person to have its feelings extracted. Actually, if these claims of easy permanent (or, as with "Hairaway," gradual) depilation without shaving really are certified as working and "safe" (as by the FDA), would they eventually be required of surgeons, nurses, even food handlers as a "public health measure"? (There are recent complaints that most physicians and nurses don't do thorough hand-washing between patient visits in hospitals and nursing homes, a possible subtle source of nosocomial infections.) Promises of long-term to permanent body hair removal have appeared in gay rags for years, but they haven't been much believed so (outside of the circuit party crowd perhaps) they've been pretty much ignored by gay male consumers. Perhaps not now. The billboards are going up, especially in gay neighborhoods.
Also, check the essay "Notes on the Hairless Man" by David Skinner, The Weekly Standard (a "conservative" periodical), June 21, 1999, p. 22. Skinner's innuendo would equate (incorrectly) Caucasian male hairlessness with homosexuality (sounds like Growing Up Straight??); to refute his claims, just look around any Gay Pride festival. He really digs Marky Mark Wahlberg (and overlooks Leonardo Di Caprio) in enumerating those with no hair on their chests. (Marky Mark was indeed the ultimate icon a few years ago. This article quotes an interview between Wahlberg and (NBC "Today Show") Matt Lauer in which Lauer makes the word "creative" a synonym for "gay," a concept the substance of which I take up in Chapter 3 of the DADT book when I take up Paul Rosenfels and the Ninth Street Center.) Well, his best point comes at the end: "The hairless man is perhaps searching for romance, but only insofar as it supplies self-fulfillment and steers him clear of the burdens of love and family … The hairless man would have to be robbed of his adolescent affectations and forced to mature." Well, Skinner's idea of "Tribunals" is exactly the opposite of those at William and Mary in 1961, for that matter, the Naval Academy (even today), where perhaps "the razor is the great equalizer."
Skinner never mentions that a lot of guys go bald in the legs as they get older. (So do gals.) So, I confess my secret shame: I must never wear shorts in public! Then, there is that chilling scene of chagrin and self-discovery on the beach of the policeman character (his "years of chafing") in Peter Benchley's novel Jaws, when he pukes.
Actors (my roommate wanted to be an actor) often change their bodies for the movies. Robin Williams gets shaved for Mrs. Doubtfire and Hook. (A lot of actors got shaved in the 1950's; that was "common decency.") Matt Damon lost about 30 pounds to appear gaunt in Courage Under Fire. Comedian Adam Sandler (The Waterboy and Big Daddy) says on ABC "Good Morning America" that he wants "fatter roles." Do actors want to "be themselves" regardless of what they look like? See also Joel Stein's heterosexual view of this (what men like in women) in Time, Sept 20, 1999, p. 22, "Shaving the Body, Fantastic."
There is also not-often-discussed subject of what some pro athletes put themselves through: the "peaking" for competitive swimming and cycling, and the physical abuse of contact sports (ranging from boxing to football) that relate back to the "group warrior" paradigm of young masculinity. The death of Minnesota Vikings's Korey Stringer from heat exhaustion in July 2001 after a routine practice focused attention on the brutality of the preparations: men often vomit during practice, and have to be hydrated intravenously at times.
MS-NBC reports that, according to instruction manuals captured by the FBI, the hijackers of September 11, 2001 were to shave their own bodies as a religious ritual in their motel rooms the night before their hijackings. Body shaving was an old religious ritual sometimes practiced by the ancient Egyptians when certain sacred animals died. Without the context of peaking for sports or acting, the practice seems connected to the surrender of individuality that might go with particular kinds of sustained religious fervor. Maybe this will turn out to be a curious clue. The Taliban seem to have this fixation on maintaining beards (of a certain length, to prove virility—and this goes along with their fixation on gender roles in general) and yet Muslim men pilgrims sometimes remove private and underarms hair before their pilgrimages to Mecca. Many Muslim men have heads shaved during the later part of the Hajj.
Military bonding rituals have sometimes included shaving, especially in the Navy (the Village People's song to boot) as when ships cross the equator, or Plebe "hazing" at Annapolis. There were various stories like this in the mid 1990s as the military gay ban was debated.
And film writers Joel and Ethan Coen made clever use of leg shaving as a metaphor and plot twist in the delicious, garish black-and-white film noir, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, USA Films, with Billy Bob Thornton). And there was that line in Aliens III where pn a lice-infested planet where Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is given "clippers for her private parts."
Even so, columnist Kin Crow, from the Pittsburg Post Gazette, wrote a piece (May 24, 2003), "The new standard? It'll put hair on your chest?" Even given all the new technology boasting of easy permanent depilation, chest hair, she writes, may be coming back. She claims that unspecified statistics show that 30% of all men 18-34 shave some chest hair (a questionable claim) but that now the hairy "natural" look is coming back. The smooth chest, she says, came into fashion in the late 1980s, perhaps after macho-man John Travolta waxed his chest, arms and legs to do ballet in Staying Alive (1985). (He had been hairy enough in Saturday Night Fever (1978).)
It gets worse than that. In 1990, CVS and other drug stores magazine counters were decorated by a sports magazine that promoted "cycling's best legs," with the idea that the boys' legs and the girls' legs are the same. The gay mag Christopher Street, in the late 1980s, runs a parody on Ronald Reagan's movie role in John Love Mary, in which he depants and reveals ladylike gams that "bear an embarrassing resemblance to Mae Wests's"; the fact that such a scene was shot at all proves the "existence" of heterosexual directors in Hollywood. In Jaws, author Peter Benchley will note the sudden chagrin of his lead character to noticing the loss of hair from his legs (almost as traumatic as finding a decapitated corpse on the beach), attributing it to years of chafing by starched police uniforms. A more likely cause is hardening of the arteries, along with cigarette smoking or excessive sugars and fats. A lot of guys go bald in the legs, starting from the ankles and moving up the shins, as well as the pates.
Then, check out the new coined term "metrosexuality" in the article "Real Men Get Waxed: A New Male Market Emerges" in the July 5 The Economist, p. 57 (the "back, crack, and sack" waxing for straight men).
And the idea of the "Tribunals" comes back as a last night bachelor party in the American Pie film American Wedding (2003, Universal, with Chris Moore from Liveplanet—normally associated with Miramax and Project Greenlight—producing) when one of the boys has his chest and arms taped up by aggressive women, and then when Jim (played by Jason Biggs, egged on by sexually ambiguous buddy Steve Stifler, as played by Seann William Scott) shaves his own crotch (the hair-fall from the resort hotel room on camera) as a way to "peak" and announce his commitment to marriage after years of philandering.
Then the Dec 20 2003 The Economist weighs in on this ("The Bare Truth: Why are humans nearly hairless? And why do some wish to become more so?") with theories about susceptibility to parasites, apparent virility, cleanliness, metrosexuals, and so on.
Finally, The Ultimate Tribunal took place on the Donald Trump-a-Dump show The Apprentice on NBC Jan. 21, 2004. The project was "negotiation," it was the girls against the boys, and one of the items to negotiate—a service to boot—w as a leg wax. Okay, Sam, the project leader, didn't get the wax; that went to teammate Idaho country bumpkin Troy McClain. (Remember Washington Senators' pitche Denny McClain?) It was painful to watch, this tribunal, but afterwards one boy's leg and one girl's leg were the same. And after waxing, it takes longer to grow back. They could have made it permanent by picking one of the laser treatments. After all, Troy said that he underwent such humiliation for The Team. (Donald Trump makes note of such abasement in his chapter on The Apprentice in his 2004 book, How to Get Rich. That is, How to Have It All.) I seem to remember a Washington Blade ad for a full leg hair job as $2495. I suspect that Wild Man Sammy--next comment--"negotiated" a much lower price for his teammate.) Sam, The Wild Man, as if from Stephen King's The Stand, and known after his performance for Jason the week before for his evasiveness, got the dreaded words: "You're fired!" Maybe Do Ask Do Tell was Donald Trump's inspiration for this particular negotiation item. Oh, also, Trump says that negotiation is in the genes. Well, I "negotiated" my way out of going to Tribunals, but not out of being kicked out of school two months later. It's noteworthy that the Apprentices room and board together, two to a room in one of the Trump towers.
On the second episode of Season 2 of The Apprentice, (NBC, Sept. 16, 2004), the Boardroom scene raised some real issues. In Season 2, Trump made a rule that the team leader of a winning team would be exempt from firing next week. Bradford was in that position in the Boardroom and offered to waive that right. Trump called that an "impulsive, stupid, life-threatening decision that could destroy a company instantaneously" if made by one of his executives. So Bradford got the "you're fired!" This is a real weird rank and yank. (This is despite the tact that Bradford was, by Trump's admission, the "best" in the room.) But didn't Bradford have the "right" to negotiated his own future on his own? Maybe, but this sounds like the "rebuttable presumption" problem that will come up later with gays in the military. Bradford made a provocative statement to advance what he perceived to be his own moral agenda. But his statement creates a presumption of disloyalty to the Trump Organization. Bradford, if in a pinch, might put his own political or social agenda over the welfare of his employer and its stakeholders. A corporate officer does not get to do that, a notion that I talk about elsewhere in my books and websites as "conflict of interest." Of course, corporate officers do this, but they can't say that they will. In an eerie way, this has the psychological nature of my own provocative statement to the Dean on Men at William and Mary in 1961.
18b Here's another gig about all this. The first episode of TheWB's Smallville, Season 1 Pilot, which features the 9-11-like meteor shower and was aired first about a month after 9-11, features a sequence where teenage Clark Kent is "crucified" on a scarecrow for not being part of the football team (also for being seen with Lana), and there is a flashback with another character who had been going through the scarecrow "tribunal" in 1989 when the meteor shower started. The incident draws from other current incidents, including Matthew Shepard, perhaps, as well as Columbine. But the writers appear to be making the point that "different" high school students are sometimes hazed for not playing group sports, especially football, and that the practice is still a problem, related to bullying, today. (Almost the very first image after the strapping teenager Clark appears in the Pilot is the permission slip for football that his father refuses to sign, to protect his "secret," and Clark doesn't want high school to be a "complete disaster." I am not aware if this appears in the Marvel comics.) That did not happen to me at all at Washington-Lee, as "nerds" were also valued in the Cold War environment, but when I got to William and Mary with a mixture of more rural students, my situation was indeed different. One morning shortly after the Tribunals which I had skipped, a football player, in half-length jerseys with shaved legs, approached me in the cafeteria at breakfast and taunted me for not playing sports. So this does happen. How much did this sports thing contribute towards what would happen later with my "confession" (of latent homosexuality to the Dean of Men) and expulsion?
So it goes on. On "Smallville," Clark Kent's spaceship laser-burns his chest, disfiguring it with the S-scar that rather looks like keloids; Warner Brothers follows with "Elimidate," where on one episode the girl offers to let one of the male contestants have sex with her only if he will shave his chest, and he retorts, "Real men have hairy chests," and insists that she love him as he is.
18c, Pg. 28, pr. 7. But my parents did pay my way through George Washington (in 1965 $800 a semester tuition was considered a lot of money), and I never personally faced the student loan problem.
18d. In a debate called "The Connection" on National Public Radio on December 20, 1999, Charles Moskos (in debating the military "don't ask don't tell" policy) suggested that practically all universities with dorms (including his own Northwestern) will separate (put in separate rooms) gay and straight students when the individual students express discomfort. This was not available to me though at William and Mary in 1961. The web site is http://www.gaymilitary.ucsb.edu/, look at the "Press Center."
Y1 (18e) It's important to me that younger readers understand the way teenage boys often feel about their expected "roles." Even a person with a professed interest in the arts and drama like my roommate had made a large psychological investment in his notion of "performing" the way a man is expected to with respect to women (and in the "double standard.") The idea of homosexuality can suggest the destruction of a man's ability to perform, or it may be used as a way for young men to taunt or bully others in their quest for social approval or "power." The relationship to bullying and late problems with school violence cannot be overestimated. Also important is the way young men crowded together feel about their roles, an idea that becomes important later when they must bond together to protect others, as in the military. And even at this age, young men may suspect that family performance is likely to matter to them later in life, when they will not always be able to compete on their own.
18f I had never heard of what male homosexuals "do" (i.e., fellatio) until my roommate told me. I passed this information on to a chum with whom I shared music interests there and he had never heard it mentioned. The tone of these discussions (as well as of the "urban legends") could be embarrassing.
18g It is conceivable that he could have actually witnessed some kind of incident at the camp that really was horrible. I sounded like an urban legend to me.
18h Another "theory" would be that he could have felt that he was being compared to other men that I presented as past "friends" (or "boyfriends"). Young men in those days (and sometimes today) were very conscious of the idea that they would have to compete with other men for "women" (in order to have a "lineage") and were easily rattled by indirect suggestions that they were physically inadequate. This sort of observation is well known from debating gays in the military and the "don't ask don't tell" policy, an attempt to get around the compromise of unit cohesion and cooperation when men live together in conditions of forced intimacy.
19 I eventually learned to swim the width of the YMCA pool in GW's gym class; in better public schools today, swimming is mandatory PE and nobody gets out of it.
19a My behavior as a pre-teen particularly could now be viewed as a variation of Aspberger's Syndrome, which some psychiatrists describe as the mildest form of autism. What seems to happen is that the brain becomes excessively concerned with its own short-term interest (as seen from an immature perspective), so the person does not develop the spontaneity and instinct necessary for athletic coordination or facile social interaction and intimacy. The person remains attached to possessions or to mental processes that he can control. Why learn to swim if you are an air-breathing mammal? The Syndrome is probably both genetic and environmental in origin.
19b Regarding my stint of six months at the National Institutes of Health mental health ward from July 1962 to Jan. 1963: The mildly reparative therapy was partially based on the idea that I did not "see people as people" and instead saw them as aesthetic objects to be mentally manipulated in a kind of imaginary masturbation. Normal heterosexuality, and the ability to have a woman in a relationship of complementarity and have children, stemmed out of an ability to "empathize" with people at some level of "real emotion" or "real life" (later an idea that would be called "aesthetic realism" (discussed in Chapter 3). This concept has remained troublesome, as some do not like the visibility of my pen when I do not share their emotional attachments. But later this would become a "chicken and egg" problem. Should be following their own self-expression in life before they attempt "relationships" (marriages or otherwise), or is it the other way around. Putting self-expression first comports with modern individualism, but it also risks leaving a lot of people behind; so this leads to the "pay your dues" moral thinking.
19c I do have my patient records, copied on an old 60s era thermafax and faded. There are detailed medical records, and a diary made by the staff of every day I spent there, and of all of my interactions with the staff and other patients. The psychiatric referral letters to be sent out in following years (in security clearance investigations) refer to various diagnoses such as "compulsive character disorder" and "schizoid personality." (As we learn in Chapter 3, psychological feminines are "compulsive" and masculines are "obsessive.") The nurses typed and handwrote notes, and seemed concerned about conversation about homosexuality, about attempts to touch other male patients, and visibly inappropriate body manipulations at times. They were watching me! That is what was going on in the government in 1962. The social worker's writeups (based on family therapy and interviews) are interesting, as they show a misguided concern with extended family image that is uncool by today's individualistic standards and that distorts the objective understanding of what could have caused this catastrophic incident at William and Mary in 1961.
Chapter 1: General: CNN, on January 14, 2001, reported on the issue of campus "justice" where students are "tried" for sexual harassment or violating speech or behavior codes without full "due process," and this is distinctly related to what I experienced at William and Mary. The "justice" however also brings up the topic of employer progressive discipline as often encountered in the workplace in larger companies.
May 31, 2001 the Los Angeles Times reported that many school districts do not act when gay students are bullied or harassed. Only six states have laws requiring them to stop anti-gay harassment in schools. However, school administrators would have a common law (or even statutory) duty to act upon any threats of violence or harm to any student, whatever the student's associations or possible minority status. The article discussed the case of David Henkle in Nevada; he now has a suit against his former school district.
In December 2002 an eighth grader in Banning, CA sued her school district after she was forced to sit out gym class for over a week after rumors that she was a lesbian surfaced (despite the absence of any inappropriate conduct) on the theory that other students would be "uncomfortable." This fits in with what happened to me at William and Mary and what will be discussed later in Chapter 4 on gays in the military. Her attorney is Martha Matthews and the CA state statue at issue is the CA Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000.
In July 2003 the New York City public school system said that it would open a special high school for gay students, the Harvey Milk High School, in September 2003. Critics point out a parallel to segregation ("separate but equal"), a failure of school officials to control harassment, and the lack of learning experience for both homosexuals and heterosexuals if they learn about each other, as well as the notion of using public funds for "special privileges." However proponents feel that oppression in some high schools is so great as to justify the measure. Many gay teenager today seem to do quite well compared to my generation, and the experience is certainly variable.
In October 2003 a high school student, Jeffrey Woodard, was expelled from a private Christian school (the Jupiter Christian School) in Florida after being coaxed by a teacher to state his sexual orientation in s supposedly confidential discussion. The school did not state an official reason for his expulsion, and there was no actual conduct that violated any school policies. This was covered on CNN by Paula Zahn (http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/28/cnna.zahn.access/index.html). Florida does not have a sexual orientation discrimination law, but their may be other grounds for lawsuit according to his attorney, Trent Steele, because of the way the matter was handled (which somewhat parallels my own 1961 expulsion from William and Mary). In summer 2003, at All God's Children Metropolitan Community Church (AGCMCC) in Minneapolis, a congregation member, in a lay speech to the congregation recruiting volunteers to Metrodome fundraising events, related a similar story of his being fired as a teacher at a Christian school.
Many colleges now have systems for assigning dorm roommates. See Amy Argetsinger, "In Dorms, a Method to the Matches: Colleges Pushing Selection of Roommates to a Science," The Washington Post, Aug. 30, 2004, p. A1. This article apparently did not discuss gay issues. However Steven Menashi provides an article "Colleges' Housing Hypocrisy" in the October 2, 2000 Dartmouth Review in which colleges, while objecting to military recruiters on campus because of the ban, are starting to set up separate housing for gay students. http://www.dartreview.com/issues/10.2.00/hypocrisy.html . Voluntary dormitory housing assignment by cultural affiliation (even for such issues as having pets!) is called "affinity housing" and is considered appropriate today.
Anne Hull provided an article "Young and Gay in America: A Separate Place: In the Bible Belt, Acceptance is Hard-Won," September 26, 2004, The Washington Post, with a story about the family in Oklahoma of 17-year-old Michael Shackelford. His mother was reportedly quite surprised to learn about the politics of homosexuality as it had progressed in recent decades outside of the closed, committed religious belief system in the Bible Belt. Susan Baker, of The Baltimore Sun, is providing a series starting October 3, 2004: "One Nation: Two Worlds: As election approaches partisan American aligns: Poles Apart: Same-sex marriage is new front in culture wars," once again hits the simple faith of fundamentalist Christianity that for some people does not allow disagreement or debate (or that means that you don't "believe.") One family reported wanting to boycott Disney and various television stations or movie theaters or distributors for presenting gay themes as acceptable. Whatever the "punting" to religious authority for difficult-to-articulate ideas, one is left with the notion that the "freedom" to be gay publicly is seen by some people as an insult, a form of contempt, or a threat to the whole idea that an average person gets his or her primary sense of meaning from family and blood lineage.
Theology student Matthew Bass was stripped of a scholarship and expelled by Baylor University (Waco, TX) when it learned that he is gay. Bass subsequently was awarded a similar scholarship by Emory University in Atlanta, GA. However, there are complications. On January 12, 2005 Baylor filed a lawsuit against Bass in the 74thTexas District Court (Judge Alan Mayfield) claiming that Bass had sent over 1000 pornographic emails or messages to persons at Baylor anonymously. Baylor as supposedly able to trace the emails to Bass's own computer under his own ISP and IP address. The story shows that persons may have liability for sending spam or offensive content, and I have discussed elsewhere on this site the possibility of downstream liability if a person's computer or domain is hijacked by hackers, an event that conceivably could have happened here. The Washington Blade news story ("Blade Blog") appears on January 14, 2005, at http://www.washingtonblade.com/blog/index.cfm?start=1/9/05&end=1/16/05#308
Regarding the general social tone of McCarthyism ("Good Night, and Good Luck"), from which society had been gradually emerging in the late 1950s, the National Archives has some significant commentary, at http://www.archives.gov/publications/ref-info-papers/107/#still It is my belief that all of this material helps shed some light on what happened to me in the early 1960s, especially at William and Mary and later at NIH.
The whole "William and Mary" story in Chapter 1 resembles in some measure the plot of the 1956 MGM film Tea and Sympathy, reviewed at the link shown. The "pajama party" in that film corresponds to the "tribunals" in this chapter.
There is a link to a PDF copy of some of my NIH patient records here.
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John Yembrick left a director position at the space agency's Ames Research Center to lead NASA's social media efforts, and the passionate digital communications believer never looked back. He was pegged for the role as one of the early advocates of social media within the agency, and he's leveraged emerging technologies to help advance NASA's outreach activities and reach new audiences (those 10 million Facebook fans can't all be physicists). One of his big ideas includes creating NASA Socials (formerly known as NASA Tweetups), which take the online engagement offline by providing active social media users with an in-person experience that goes behind the scenes. A day in Yembrick's life includes leading a team of social media specialists across 10 NASA field centers and overseeing almost 500 social media accounts.
San Francisco-based Yembrick previously worked in a number of communications roles at NASA, including public affairs and space operations. Before that, Yembrick worked for the US Justice Department, leading communications for the US Attorney's Office in Texas.
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Oscar poll: 9 women won Best Actress on their only nomination -- who was the best?
In the history of Best Actress at the Oscars, eight previous champs have never received another nomination: Mary Pickford ("Coquette, " 1929), Ginger Rogers ("Kitty Foyle, " 1940), Judy Holliday ("Born Yesterday, " 1950), Shirley Booth ("Come Back Little Sheba, " 1952), Louise Fletcher ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, " 1975), Marlee Matlin ("Children of a Lesser God, " 1986), ("Shakespeare in Love, " 1998) and ("Monster's Ball, " 2001).
("Room") is the ninth, but her Best Actress victory is just a couple of weeks old, so there's every possibility she'll earn another Oscar bid in the near future. For that matter, you can't rule out a future bid for any of the living champs: Berry, Paltrow and Matlin all work regularly. Even 81-year-old Fletcher remains active.
Which of those performances do you think was the best? Our forum posters are currently debating the topic. Read some of their comments below, and click here to join the discussion. Then make sure to vote in our poll at the bottom of this post.
Sasha: Shirley Booth for the win and Judy Holliday as runner-up. Both are for me at TOP 10 of the Best Leading Actress winners of all time. Absolutely amazing performances.
Vincelette: Halle Berry's performance is good, and I'm happy that she's an Oscar-winner. Let's hope she can get a few future Oscar nominations as well.
ThePerksOfBeingAGriff: Paltrow is good. She just hasn't had very strong projects lately. She showed promise in "Contagion." She had like 5 seconds but you loved her. She did well in "Thank You For Sharing." She has comedic chops and dramatic chops. She needs to do the healthy medium in between. I think she can come back.
ETPhoneHome: For her outstanding silent career, I have to go with Mary Pickford. She is undoubtedly the biggest movie star on this list, and arguably one of the biggest of all time.
Atypical: Ugh, slim pickings. Voted for Louise Fletcher. Nurse Ratched is iconic. That's even for people who haven't seen "OFOTCN." None of these others can say that, or their notoriety is for other reasons. Fletcher's win shouldn't be as maligned as much as it has been over the years.
Joe Burns: Matlin, her performance is incredible. Highly deserving of her Best Actress win. Booth is great, Berry, Paltrow, and especially Fletcher not so much.
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Sunday, a leading full-stack insurtech based in Thailand, has raised a USD 11 million extension round to its Series A financing. The round was led by Quona Capital, a leading fintech venture firm whose funds are anchored by Accion, with participation from existing investor Vertex. The new funding will provide growth capital to enable Sunday to expand its business and build enhancements to its proprietary core technology, which utilizes machine learning to price premiums for health, motor, and travel insurance in real time. More information is available at www.easysunday.com.
Launched in 2017, Sunday offers end-to-end insurance products and services powered by its machine-learning risk prediction engines, and aims to serve all of its customers as the "one-stop insurance shop" for healthcare, mobile gadgets, motor vehicle and travel insurance.
"Over the last two years, Sunday has been laser-focused on redesigning the entire insurance journey using data and technology," said Sunday co-founder and CEO Cindy Kua. "Today we're proud to be able to deliver personalised coverage and superior customer experiences from initial insurance purchase all the way through to any claims, whether on the Sunday system or through its partner channels."
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Word of Muth: One-Game Season
The Pittsburgh Steelers' win against Baltimore was a microcosm of their 2010 season. There were injuries to the offensive line. Their defense forced turnovers. Ben Roethlisberger got hit a lot, but stayed in the game and played well. Rashard Mendenhall's numbers looked better than they seemed. And finally, one of their wide receivers made a big play down the field to win the game.
When ESPN does the NFL Yearbook for the Steelers, they should just show this game. Really the only thing that was missing was Roethlisberger missing the first quarter of the game for inappropriate restroom behavior. (That seemed like the nicest way to say it until I read it back, but screw it. The guy was a creep.) Basically this game shows that the Steelers have an identity, and it's led to a lot of wins.
Their identity is a simple one: a juggernaut defense with a really good quarterback, big play skill players, and a really bad offensive line. The Steelers' offensive line kept up their end of this identity against the Ravens. Roethlisberger was sacked and harassed throughout game. Mendenhall had a mediocre day on the ground, and looked so hesitant that Peter King called him out in MMQB this week. In Mendenhall's defense, it's easy to be hesitant when you are looking for something that isn't there (a hole). Pittsburgh suffered injuries or illnesses to both tackles, but they looked bad no matter what lineup was up front.
Maurkice Pouncey and Chris Kemoeatu played the best of the seven Steelers who saw action. Pouncey played really well, and perhaps the best he has all year. The rookie was good in pass protection for the vast majority of the game, providing excellent depth to the pocket (centers and guards are responsible for keeping defensive tackles as close to the line of scrimmage as possible to provide plenty of depth for the quarterback to step into). Pouncey also drew a defensive holding call that wasn't in the secondary, perhaps the only penalty rarer than offensive pass interference (though defensive hands to the face is a contender). He still can't block Haloti Ngata, but he was rarely matched up against him.
Kemoeatu was good as well, despite the monumentally dumb penalty on the final touchdown. The big left guard was the only other offensive lineman who played what anyone would call a good game for Pittsburgh.
With those two out of the way, we get to the rest of the unit. Ramon Foster managed to play poorly at two positions this week, showing off his versatility. Foster played so poorly I'm worried he caught whatever Flozell Adams had (although it's possible Foster's play was what made Adams ill, we could have a chicken/egg situation). It didn't seem to matter if it was a pass play or a running play, Foster's man was going to be in the backfield and causing trouble.
The poor play at tackle could certainly be excused, but it wasn't noticeably worse than his play at guard. He was out-quicked, out-muscled, and out-finessed all game. It was the kind of performance that could get you cut in the preseason.
Adams was apparently violently ill and eventually had to be removed. I will say this for the veteran, he certainly looked ill. Adams, who has never been confused with Bob Hayes, looked even slower than normal on Saturday. He gave up a hit on inside move to Terrell Suggs that made him look like he was wearing concrete cleats. On the sack/fumble/touchdown, Terrell Suggs simply ran around the plodding Adams to make the play. Big Ben held onto the ball a little long on this play but still, Adams looked very lethargic.
On top of all this, Adams' run blocking was unusually poor, an area he's done well in all season. That simply wasn't the case this week, as the veteran tackle rarely got much movement in the ground game. Hopefully the poor performance has more to do with disease than it does with wearing down from old age as the season has advanced. If not, Pittsburgh could be in trouble.
Whereas Adams played about as bad as he has all season, Jonathan Scott and Trai Essex played just like they have on any other week. Unfortunately, neither has distinguished himself on the field this season. I don't want to go into too much detail here, as I feel like I have criticized both men enough and have accepted that they are who they are at this point. Neither has pass-blocked effectively, and I'll leave it at that. Scott left the game due to injury -- the second time this year he has injured himself giving up a tackle for loss -- but is expected to play next week. At this point, I don't see much of a difference between him and Essex.
Figure 1: Baltimore's blitz
Since I've done a lot of Steelers games this year, and they didn't do anything that really jumped out at me, I figured it would be more fun to break down a Baltimore blitz. It was third-and-12 early in the third quarter when Baltimore dialed up a very creative blitz. The Steelers lined up in a shotgun formation with a tight end to the right and the back offset to the left. The Ravens came out in what was a variation of a dime 3-4 (a 3-4 where you replace two linebackers with defensive backs). They had a nose tackle and two five-technique defensive ends (head up over the offensive tackle). All three of these defensive linemen had their hands off the ground, but would still be counted as down defensive linemen.
Outside of the defensive ends, the Ravens had two standup defenders on the line of scrimmage. This type of look, often called double wide or double edge has become increasingly popular on third downs out of 3-4 defense. The goal of the look is make offensive linemen pass set much wider than usual.
For instance, if you are sliding into the look, the center has to go to the defensive end, the guard has to go to a man outside the tackle, and the tackle has to kick past two defenders to get to the widest rusher. It can take every offensive lineman out of his normal pass set and comfort zone. What makes the Ravens alignment unusual is that they are showing a double edge look to each side.
With both their edges being threatened at the snap, the Steelers have 2 Jet protection called. We've talked about 2 Jet in the past, but the basic premise is that you slide the offensive line to the left and the back blocks to the right. The only exception is the right tackle, who has the defensive end man to man. In this case, 3 Jet would have been a better choice, but the way the Ravens lined up, it is impossible to tell which way the pressure is coming from.
So the Steelers slide their line to the left, where the Ravens drop everyone but Suggs. Now the Steelers have four guys on one. On the right side the defensive end crashes down inside to fill the rush lane of the dropping nose tackle. Outside of him the safety and linebacker blitz, running a twisting stunt.
The twist proved to be unnecessary (although it is tough to pick up if you are sliding towards it) as Mendenhall was the only blocker left for the two defenders, Ray Lewis and Haruki Nakamura. Mendenhall took Lewis (the right choice since he was the inside man, and he's Ray Lewis) and left Nakamura a free run to the Big Ben. The greatness of the stunt isn't that it worked (well, Ravens fans probably think that's the great thing about the stunt) but rather that it is insanely hard to pick up and only uses four rushers.
18 comments, Last at 22 Jan 2011, 4:25pm
1 Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season
by Joseph // Jan 20, 2011 - 3:40pm
Hey Ben--great article, but use spell check (backss--in parenthesis beside the diagram; I think there was another grammar error, too). Stanford grads are better than this.
A real question, though--who was the TE (Miller?) supposed to block, or did he immediately release into the pattern without blocking or even delaying (like RB's do many times)?
by Ben Muth // Jan 20, 2011 - 3:53pm
In reply to Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season by Joseph
Miller was out in the route right away.
by tequila (not verified) // Jan 20, 2011 - 3:44pm
Say what you will about Mendenhall, but I don't think he was very tentative. He got the second TD on all on his own, as the primary hole was filled with three Baltimore defenders whom he faked out, then bulled through two more to get into the end zone. One of the toughest TD runs I've seen this year.
by Dean // Jan 20, 2011 - 3:47pm
In reply to Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season by tequila (not verified)
I can't believe you would say such a thing. I mean, that would imply that Peter King was (gasp) WRONG! Peter King!
Between Word of Muth and Walkthrough, if my boss ever charts my productivity, Thursdays will be very difficult to explain.
So if you're a QB and you see a doublewide setup like this, what's to prevent you from audibling into, say, a middle screen? Or some sort of quick crossing route? Or simply a draw play right up through the 0 or 1 holes?
In reply to Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season by Dean
A draw play would be good, but it was third and twelve in the game when Ben saw that look, so he may not have wanted to run the ball against any look. Screen are tough to audible into (unless it's just a little smoke screen to a wideout), because they usually have long play calls and a lot of working parts. It's tough get the name out so everyone can hear it and get adjusted to the call. As far as routes go, I'm simply not that familiar with how to change routes,it seems usually try to keep the same routes on a play and change the protection. Probably because offensive linemen are much closer to the QB and can actually hear the QB. It doesn't really matter that Pitt was at ho,e, because when you go over audible mechanics they are designed to get you out of bad plays in the worst condidtions (on the road) so it's tough to get audibles out to the receivers without hand signs, and hand signs take a lot of time, which is why you usually only see them in the two minute drill when teams are going no huddle.
by erniecohen // Jan 20, 2011 - 3:47pm
Ben, what did you think of that article (posted in extra points last week) that claimed that, based on the analysis of every pass play over the season, that Scott was basically tied with Pouncey as the most valuable PIT OL, worth about 700 yards (!) more than Adams this year?
In reply to Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season by erniecohen
I strongly disagree. First off, the Steelers are far more likely to chip or slide to Scott's side. Not only that but Scott has to lead the league in times where he is technically still blocking his man, but is doing so a foot away from the QB causing general discomfort. I was shocked to see the results of that study.
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by JJ Cooper (not verified) // Jan 20, 2011 - 9:00pm
In reply to Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season by Ben Muth
Jonathan Scott and Flozell Adams are masters of disaster avoidance. I'm not saying there aren't disasters, but like you just mentioned, there are a lot more plays where they are just a step away from disaster. Scott seems to be driven within a step or two of Roethlisberger on most pass plays. Adams seems to be beat around the edge just as much, but he often manages to time that last pop to drive his man past Roethlisberger.
by South Bay Bengal (not verified) // Jan 20, 2011 - 7:00pm
"That seemed like the nicest way to say it until I read it back, but screw it. The guy IS a creep."
by BaronFoobarstein // Jan 20, 2011 - 9:33pm
Ben, in an interview I read on the Steelers Lounge blog (http://www.steelerslounge.com/2011/01/craig-wolfley-big-sean-kugler-fan/) Craig Wolfley talked about a variation on zone blocking the Steelers have been running where the initial step backwards is replaces with a forward "power base step."
I was wondering if you have any thoughts about the positive and negatives of the scheme. Is it something you've noticed? Does it suit the Steelers larger, slower line?
by dmb // Jan 21, 2011 - 12:59am
"Ramon Foster managed to play poorly at two positions this week, showing off his versatility. Foster played so poorly I'm worried he caught whatever Flozell Adams had (although it's possible Foster's play was what made Adams ill, we could have a chicken/egg situation)."
I've been loving the column for its content all season long, but that had me laughing pretty hard!
by 57_Varieties (not verified) // Jan 21, 2011 - 6:08am
And to think we won the game! I'd love to hear your take on a good o line, just so I can calibrate this.
by Vicious Chicke… (not verified) // Jan 21, 2011 - 8:48am
"Ramon Foster managed to play poorly at two positions this week, showing off his versatility."
That is a great line. Pretty much sums up the Steelers Oline for the last 3 years.
by Theo // Jan 21, 2011 - 9:06am
"Rashard Mendenhall's numbers looked better than they seemed."
by John (not verified) // Jan 21, 2011 - 11:05am
In reply to Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season by Theo
How do you not get that???
by dbostedo // Jan 21, 2011 - 3:01pm
I believe he means that if you saw the numbers after the game, you'd have a better impression of Mendenhall than you would have if you had watched the game.
Maybe it's better stated this way : Rashard Mendenhall's numbers after the game looked better than his running seemed during the game.
by DGL // Jan 22, 2011 - 4:25pm
In reply to Re: Word of Muth: One-Game Season by dbostedo
Plus, it gets late early out there.


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Editors' ChoiceNeurodegenerative Disease
Is Huntington's disease a neurodevelopmental disorder?
Kristen Brennand
Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. E-mail: kristen.brennand{at}mssm.edu
Vol. 8, Issue 320, pp. 320ec1
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad9760
Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. E-mail: kristen.brennand@mssm.edu
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Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease that manifests in adulthood, typically between 30 and 50 years of age. Although genetic tests can now predict accurately whether an individual will be affected, currently there is neither a cure for HD nor a treatment to delay its onset and progression. By the time patients present with symptoms, the death of striatal neurons in the brain is well under way, and the damage may not be reversible.
An alternative strategy is to understand the molecular changes that precede neuronal death. If researchers can identify when the first indications of abnormal striatal neuronal function occur, this might permit therapeutic interventions prior to cell loss and the onset of disease symptoms. This is the approach taken by Ring et al. in their new study. These investigators reprogrammed fibroblasts from patients with Huntington's disease into induced pluripotent stem cells, which were subsequently differentiated into neural stem cells (NSCs) with gene expression patterns thought to resemble those found in the developing human brain. Surprisingly, genome-wide expression profiling of the HD NSCs, when compared with corrected isogenic control NSCs, identified perturbed expression of genes in the TFG-β, netrin-1, and Sema3D pathways. Not only were these findings replicated in mouse models of HD, but also manipulation of these gene pathways ameliorated deficits in HD NSCs such as impaired mitochondrial function.
Surprisingly, this study, which implicates dysregulation of genes involved in neuronal development and formation of the dorsal striatum, suggests that the first disease processes in HD manifest during early embryonic development, prior to full neuronal maturation. If true, this greatly expands both the time window for clinical intervention as well as the range of putative therapeutic targets that might prevent, delay or cure HD in affected individuals before the onset of disease symptoms in adulthood.
K. L. Ring et al., Genomic analysis reveals disruption of striatal neuronal development and therapeutic targets in human Huntington's disease neural stem cells. Stem Cell Rep. 5, 1023–1038 (2015). [Full Text]
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Q: Discrete mathematics problem - Probability theory and counting I'm taking a discrete mathematics course, and I encountered a question and I need your help. I don't know if this is the right place for that though :)
It says:
Each user on a computer system has a password, which is six to eight characters long, where each character is an uppercase letter or a digit. Each password must contain at least one digit. How many possible passwords are there?
The book solves this by adding the probabilities of having six,seven and eight characters long password. However, when he solves for probability of six characters he does this

P6 = 366 - 266

and does

P7 = 367 - 267

and

P8 = 368 - 268

and then add them all.
I understand the solution, but my question is why doesn't calculating, P6 = 10*365 and the same for P7 and P8, work?
10 for the digit and 36 for the alphanumeric?
Also, if anyone could give me another solution, other than the one in the book.
Thank you very much :)

A: You're forgetting that the number can be in any position.

A:
I understand the solution, but my
  question is why doesn't calculating,
  P6 = 10*36^5 and the same for P7 and
  P8, work? 10 for the digit and 36 for
  the alphanumeric?

you're guaranteeing that there is a digit by using the 10,
but, there's nothing to stop there from being a digit in the other positions (36 choices)
that's why you have to get all the combs in which there are digits and subtract all the ones where there aren't
which leads to P6 = 36^6 - 26^6
If I think if an alternate solution I'll revisit this post, but for now I don't see why you wouldn't be satisfied with the provided one, knowing why yours doesn't work

A: If you do it like 36^5 * 10, that means "take the first five positions and put some random letters/digits there and fill the sixth (and only the sixth) position with a digit" - but your digit can be in each place.
Consider the following: If you set 5 places with letters/digits, then putting a digit in the sixth place yields 10 possibilities (the sixth position can then hold every number from 0 to 9), and if you put the digit in front of the letters, this would yield another 10 possibilities (then, the first place could contain every digit from 0 to 9), so by multipliing by 10 you forget some possibilities.
If you want to calculate it "the raw way", you could do the following (I do it with six places, you can adapt it to 7 or 8). Since a password must contain at least one digit, it can hold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 digits, resp 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0 letters.
If you have k digits in 6 places in total, there are 6 over k possibilities to choose these k places. Each of these k places can be filled with a digit, so you have 10^k possibilities for the digits and 26^(6-k) possibilities for letters.
So, for k digits, you have 10^k * 26^(6-k) possibilities. Thus, since you can distribute the k digits in 6 over k ways, you have
sum(k from 1 to 5: (6 over k) * 10^k * 26^(6-k)) = 36^6-26^6
possibilities in total.


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