Word: sects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such adventurers as Robert Motherwell, member of an austere sect called the intrasubjectivists. The intrasubjectivists are "not interested in painting the embellishments of reality but in finding a direct, intense single sense of oneness with it." One Motherwell oneness is a series of unembellished rectangles, ovals and trapezoids called Western...
...Hudson River to a 90-acre tent and trailer camp at New Market, N.J., where another 9,000 had listened in over loudspeakers. And in between times, they managed to give New Yorkers the impression that there was a Witness on nearly every street corner, cheerfully hawking his sect's two periodicals, The Watchtower and Awake...
...most surprising thing about them was the quiet orderliness of a sect whose best-known trait is getting thrown into jail. A day &. night cleanup squad of 500 Witnesses kept the stadium spotless with brooms, buckets and dustpans; pop bottles were banned from the stands. Exclaimed one police sergeant in astonishment: "That's the best-behaved crowd I've ever seen in my life...
...They refuse to salute flags or to involve themselves in politics. Most of them refuse to serve in the armed forces (on the grounds that they are ministers). Such behavior keeps them constantly in hot water. Last year two of them were executed in rightist Greece; last month the sect was banned as subversive in Communist Poland (TIME, July 17). Their history in the U.S. has been punctuated by Supreme Court decisions, injunctions, jail terms and mob violence...
Last week, in Communist-run Poland, where the Witnesses have a 50-year history and claim 20,000 members, the sect was officially outlawed. The charge: operating "one of the outposts of a U.S. intelligence network" with headquarters in Brooklyn. On the pretext of witnessing, the security police had claimed, the group "organized and serviced spy centers whose duties, among other things, included diversion, gathering information of military, economic and commercial importance and placing spies...