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...Columbus of Sex? For years Biologist Kinsey used to investigate the habits of the gall wasp. Since he has switched to humans, he has lost much of his scientific detachment. In his passionate lefense of the taxonomic method (the scientific classification of living things) he ignored or attacked the findings of anthropologists, sociologists and psychoanalysts. Says a friend and fellow sci-"There is too much emotion there He should have been a revivalist...
Kinsey's own emotion about science may blind him to one of science's shortcomings: the great difficulty it has in dealing precisely with the emotions of human beings (as distinct from the motions of gall wasps). Kinsey can record only overt acts, or the memories of them plus a few mental attitudes of which his subjects are sufficiently aware to tell him In the female volume, which he calls a far more human document than its predecessor, he does his best to explore the psychological factors in sex. But he can only check off emotions; he cannot...
Armed with his Sc.D. from Harvard (he has no M.D.), Kinsey joined the Indiana faculty. But a classroom could not hold him. He was forever searching scrub oaks for gall wasps, which fascinated him as living proof that evolution is still going on. When he had collected thousands of specimens in southern Indiana and recorded 28 microscopic measurements of each in a growing pile of statistics, Kinsey had to go farther and farther afield. Eventually he logged 80,000 miles of travel (much of it with Mrs. Kinsey and the children along as helpers) and 3,500,000 gall wasps...
...Times headline said COAST OIL DIGGING URGED TO CUT DEBT, he replied: "Dig that crazy word . . . Oil wells are usually drilled rather than dug." Grammatical errors are listed under the head, "English the King wouldn't like" ("He had been ill for several months and had underwent a gall bladder operation six weeks ago," or "Then, after Jim Hearn had left a 2-1 victory in the nightcap slip away . . ."). A lively headline-MOCKTAIL TIXING KILT, COCKTAIL MIXING TILT WON BY-WHO WON 'AT OL' THING ANYWAY? -is listed under "Chuckle heads...
Although British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has shown "excellent progress" in recent weeks, his doctors announced that another gall-bladder operation has "become imperative." With Mrs. Eden (the former Clarissa Churchill) at his side, he will be flown to Boston this week for an operation by Dr. Richard Cattell-his third since he took down with a chill on March...