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...royal emissaries vied for a queen's collection of Leonardos in hushed auction rooms are gone. Today's collectors are apt to be middle-class?and many buy on the installment plan. Few of them can afford to furnish a room completely in one period, so they buy an Amish quilt or a mellowed English highboy to soften the lines of their contemporary apartments...
...society that truly values religious pluralism cannot compel adherents of minority religions to make the cruel choice of surrendering their religion or their job." In recent years, however, the court has consistently leaned toward separation of church and state. On one hand, it forbade civil authorities to require Amish children to attend public schools until the age of 16; on the other, it has knocked down all new attempts to finance parochial schools with public funds. Says Virginia Law Professor A.E. Howard: "The Burger court has virtually written the book on religious freedom. This court has shown no reluctance...
...limits of ethnic participation in a democratic society. The pluralist model for managing ethnic interactions permits both exclusivity and inclusivity in subcultural practices or endeavors, while simultaneously cultivating an open-ended universalism or cosmopolitanism as a style (value) for national institutions. At the extreme of exclusivism is the Amish model: total rejection of and isolation from modern society, cosmopolitanism and all. This is difficult to attain but if you work at it, as the great Amish people of my home state of Pennsylvania have, you can achieve much of it--including, of course, the many privations the Amish endure...
HUTTERITE SOCIETY, by John A. Hosteller (Johns Hopkins University Press; 403 pages; $14). The stern Amish and their more moderate Mennonite brothers are better known than the Hutterites, another wing of German Anabaptists, whose long religious journey led them to Moravia, Transylvania and Russia before they came to North America in the last century. Hosteller, an anthropologist and sociologist at Temple University, comes from an Amish background and has already demonstrated his expertise in the well-known 1963 study called Amish Society. His new book draws an impressive picture of a people who share the general Anabaptist rejection of worldly...
Buffalo Fish. The contrasts are evident in everything the two fighters say and do, even in the things they own and the way they train. Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., overlooking Amish country, could be described as rich rustic. The $200,000 compound consists of five buildings in a log-cabin motif, including a fully equipped gym. Foreman trains in the drab mineral and gem exhibition hall at the Alameda County fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., near Oakland. For dressing quarters he uses the ladies' room...