The Rite Time
June, 1963
"Adam catched eve by the furbelow, And that," according to famous catch composer, Henry Purcell, "is the oldest catch we know." The history of mating does, indeed, reach back to Adam's delighted discovery of the world's first prime rib. The mating rite -- or the contractual formalization of what had once merely been a blissful verbal agreement -- is somewhat more recent, but has rapidly developed into what one cynic described as, "Marriage: a community consisting of a ma...
