Word: offshoot
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...Spiritual heirs of that flamboyant fake Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican Negro who paraded through Harlem under a banner with a black star in the 1920s calling for a return to Africa, scores of outfits exist. There are Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and Malcolm X's offshoot Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox Mission and the House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda, which displays a sign advertising the book The God Damn White Man. All told, they probably have no more than 5,000 members...
...forthrightly dedicated to whoopee in a good cause, the Shriners are pranksters by profession, obligation and tradition. Launched over a Manhattan lunch table in 1870 by 13 Masons determined to have more cheer than that earnest, philanthropic brotherhood provided for, the Order of the Shrine is no frivolous minor offshoot but the second highest level of all Masonry. Only 32nd-degree Masons or Knights Templar are eligible -though admittedly their degree can be attained, if a man puts his mind to study, in a matter of months. The Shriners' caste mark, worn proudly if sometimes absurdly, is a maroon...
...offshoot of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren, the Exclusives have traditionally been a clannish sort, clustering in self-imposed ghettos in small English towns and Scottish fishing villages. They seldom marry outside the sect, and refer to each other as "saints"-the only true disciples of Christ. The Brethren do not smoke, dance, watch TV or wear makeup, but official doctrine says that "strong drink is to be regarded as a creation of God and saints should freely drink...
...Love. In its attempt to modernize, the Klan organizes registration drives and car pools to put whites on voting rolls, permits members to wear civvies at rallies. A major offshoot in Georgia, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, uses recordings narrated by former Network Radio Announcer Wally Butterworth to spread its pitch. Kluxers near Natchez, Miss., dropped recruiting leaflets from an airplane. Shelton himself uses a car radiotelephone to communicate with his henchmen...
...oldtime newspaper editor once defined his job as telling the people what they think. Such focusing of half-formed opinion is the role of the Educational Policies Commission, an independent offshoot of the National Education Association. In 1938 the commission echoed the country by defining the goal of U.S. schools as "economic efficiency," in 1951 as "the pursuit of happiness," in 1961 as "the ability to think." To that rising curve of academic aspiration, the commission last week added a new goal: "Universal opportunity" for all Americans to go beyond high school-free of charge-for two more years...