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...Eager Helpers. Kinsey's real laboratory is the whole U.S. He will go to any amount of trouble to collect case histories from a region, a cultural group, an occupational class or a religious sect which may not be adequately represented in his samples. Stray individuals figure less and less in his work. Kinsey commonly accepts an invitation to address (without fee) an organization such as a conference of Y.W.C.A. secretaries: After he has described the nature and purpose of his study, he calls for volunteers to sign up for interviews. He often gets a response as high...
...Amish farm is likely to have a horse-drawn buggy in the yard and no electric lights in the house. The men of the sect (an offshoot of the Mennonites) wear wide-brimmed black hats, plain black suits, and beards; the women, plain bonnets and voluminous clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide...
Mystics & Samurais. By the end of the 14th century Japanese sculpture had declined, while drawing rose to new heights under the inspiration of the Zen Buddhist sect. Zen Buddhists stressed solitary contemplation as the loftiest activity, and Zen artists tried to put the fruit of such contemplation-the feeling that God exists, veiled, throughout nature-on to paper. Confining themselves chiefly to ink and water, they drew flowers, priests, birds, and deep, misty landscapes, with only a few strokes of the brush...
Lawrence, an Episcopalian, said later that he would have preferred granting the property to members of his same faith, but since the Methodist sect was the frontier religion, they could make better use of it. Lawrence was careful to insure, however, that the College would not be denominational and forbade "propagating the tenets of any sect." In 1932 the College severed all remaining religious bonds with the Methodists, so that while religion continues to be a prime force on the campus, it is more than ever non-denominational...
Lawrence, an Episcopalian, said later that he would have preferred granting the property to members of his same faith, but since the Methodist sect was the frontier religion, they could make better use of it. Lawrence was careful to insure, however, that the College would not be denominational and forbade "propagating the tenets of any sect." In 1932 the College severed all remaining religious bonds with the Methodists, so that while religion continues to be a prime force on the campus, it is more than ever non-denominational...