Today’s big headline news is that human beings mated with Neanderthals over 80,000 years ago. I don’t know why scientists are just discovering this now. Tennessee Williams explored such a relationship between Blanche and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, his 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. And, of course, we also see such relationships being acted out today with alarming regularity in and out of the classroom, perhaps even in and out of our own bedrooms.
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