Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following this and the presentation of the honorary degree, there will be several Alumni luncheons for the various classes. The afternoon is given over completely to the Alumni Association: George Rublee '90 will welcome all alumni as President of the Alumni Association; President Conant will report the gifts of the past year; and Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, as first Marshal of the Twenty-Fifth Class, will speak for his group...
Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr last week took cognizance of the Kinsey Report. Like many another churchman, he found Scientist Kinsey's point of view toward sex "distressing"-even more so than the sad state of U.S. morals it indicated...
Writing in the fortnightly Christianity & Crisis, Theologian Niebuhr attacked Kinsey on two main counts. First is the Report's assumption that the prevailing sexual license reflects the inadequacy of sex standards set up by the churches. Niebuhr admits that neither Catholic nor Protestant attitudes toward sex are all they might be. But with all its faults, maintains Niebuhr, Christian teaching comes much nearer than Dr. Kinsey to a true understanding of the place of sex in human relations. The Kinsey Report, he writes, "proposes to solve the problem, simply by ignoring all deeper aspects of human existence. Sexual drives...
...have been worsted by the tumult of their own passions. There is nothing in the present situation to encourage complacency among those of us who call ourselves Christian. Yet we do have at least a tenuous hold upon a dimension of existence which is not touched in this Report . . . The modern naturalism which seeks to solve the problems of man's sexual life by treating him as an animal, only slightly more complex than other brutes, represents a therapy which implies a disease in our culture as grievous or more grievous than the sickness it pretends to cure...
...works with a secretary until noon. After lunch and a nap he writes again until 5, has tea and receives friends. He hates to lose at solitaire or chess, loves the movies. A voracious reader, he rates Dashiell Hammett with Faulkner and Steinbeck, was greatly impressed by the Kinsey Report...