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...place for a spectator: he dodges bullets, gets beaten up on the street, finally leaves Moscow and his whimpering wife for the country. In a provincial town he has an affair with the singer Duniasha, then becomes legal agent for the beauteous Marina, high priestess of a mystic sect. Physically as well as emotionally stingy, he is afraid for a while that Marina may take him as her lover; finally he is afraid that he wants her to. But Marina has more sense. She tells him: "You are too clever, incorrigibly so, my friend. It is from such...
...assistant preacher to Pastor Jones of Hope Baptist Church (colored), is drawn from his good wife Ella by the flashing eyes of Sulamai, a loose-hipped young woman from Toomer's Bottom, across the tracks. With Sulamai he attends a meeting of the New Day Pilgrims, a strange sect who worship the moon out in the cypress swamps with four-part harmony and orgiastic dancing. Sulamai seems to have an irresistible appeal for the minor clergy. Writhing in ecstasy among the half-naked New Day Pilgrims, she also distracts the heathen big black Brother Moses from pure contemplation...
...Community of Christians of the Universal Brotherhood, as Western Canada's sect of Doukhobors call themselves, breathed easier last month when their leader, Peter Verigin II, was saved from deportation to Russia (TIME, Feb. 13). Locked up at immigration headquarters in Halifax, Leader Verigin admonished his followers to keep calm. "Do not follow the example of the foolish Sons of Freedom [fanatical inner Doukhobor sect], provocators who have been banished from the land [for going naked] and with whom we have nothing to do whatever. . . . Pay punctually all your taxes and obligations and conduct yourselves in an honorable...
...marriages (compulsory for all) are effected simply by taking partners. The Doukhobors are averse to paying taxes and putting their children in provincial schools. Their resentment against schools they sometimes expressed by burning them. Nakedness is a part of the Doukhobors' religious practice, especially in a fanatical inner sect called the "Sons of Freedom." Often, on their own lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons and bearded elders. Nakedness is also a convenient form of protest against the Government, a protest which the Northwest...
...raced to Halifax last week were Simon F. Reibin, Peter Verigin's personal secretary, and Peter C. Makaroff, counselor to the Doukhobors, first of the sect ever to attend a university or become a lawyer. In Boston they were joined by the Doukhobors' Vice President, Joseph P. Shukin, who had also hastened across the continent. They wished to see Peter Verigin II before he went back to Russia to learn about secret Doukhobor affairs from him, get from his lips a last message for his people...