Word: kinseys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real significance of the two Kinsey reports lies less in their data on sexual behavior than in the remarkable excitement they have caused in American society, Clyde M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, said yesterday...
Group No. 1. incorporated last week as Pacific Northwest Power Co., is led by Washington Water Power's President Kinsey Robinson, longtime foe of public power (TIME, March 30, 1953). Its five private-company members*; propose to spend $500 million on two big dams and power plants with a capacity of 533,000 kw. on the Clearwater River in northwestern Idaho. In line with the Administration's proposal that such big projects should get the help of the Federal Government when needed, the companies will ask the U.S. to pay such costs as highway construction and flood control...
...discussion group meets fortnightly, debating almost anything. Clyde Kluckhohn, for example spoke to the group about the female Kinsey report, and Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Economist Seymour Harris have also been recent guests. Two tutors recently formed a poetry group which plans to invite local poets to the House for informal meetings. There is a play-reading group, an art committee, which sponsors eight exhibits a year, and a house newspaper, the Oak Leaf, published occasionally...
...Alfred C. Kinsey dropped down to Little Rock, Ark. last week to discuss his specialty at the sixth annual conference of neuropsychiatrists. Lecturing on sexual abnormality, he told his psychiatrist audience deviations such as homosexuality are hardly surprising among humans. The reason: they are relatively common among animals. Some of his critics, said Zoologist Kinsey, want to have three "kingdoms"−plant, animal and man, ignoring the biological fact that man is an animal...
Sexologist Kinsey amiably joined in the applause for Dr. Alexander. There are four approaches to his big subject, said Kinsey−"Statistical, biological, moral and rational"−and he had been speaking only of the biological approach. As for his controversial books: "At no point did we suggest that statistical normality is morally or socially proper. We have never said that what is common should be accepted...