Word: kinseyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded that he was a stranger in a strange land...
Even the local legal ground rules were strained by Kinsey's trial; under Tanzanian law, the verdict is rendered by two assessors before it is either accepted or rejected by the presiding judge. Assessors are supposed to be familiar with the customs of the accused's tribe, and Kinsey had to settle for one U.S. citizen, Soil Conservationist Gail Bagley of Elsberry, Mo. The second assessor was a bespectacled Tanzanian economist, Fred Mugobi, who was at least American-educated. The defense counsel was a British-trained, Kenya-born attorney of Greek parentage-Byron Georgiadis...
Loved Wife. There, in that alien atmosphere, Kinsey, of Washington and Lee University, faced a prosecution case that seemed overwhelming. On March 27th, he and his auburn-haired wife Peverley, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, had bicycled to rock-strewn Impala hill, two miles from the village of Maswa. Prosecutor Effiwatt told the hushed court that in that lonely spot, Kinsey had taken an iron bar and beaten the young wife he had met and married in December 1964, during their Peace Corps training in the U.S. The assistant medical officer at the local hospital, who had performed...
CHINESE FOOTBINDING, by Howard S. Levy. In a book that often reads like an Oriental Kinsey report, Sinologue Levy recounts the lurid history of a fetish that persisted for 1,000 years...
...Shoe. The object of supreme adoration was the bound foot itself. It was caressed with an intensity and ingenuity that often make this volume read like a Chinese Kinsey report. The cult of the lotus inspired a corollary cult of the shoe. Many a young man slept with a slipper that belonged to his beloved-indeed, an elderly Chinese ambassador to Moscow made no secret of the fact that he carried a trunk of tiny shoes and, as Levy puts it, "privately amused himself with them...