Word: unitarian
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...speech entitled "Sexual Politics At Harvard," sponsored by the Unitarian Church's Cambridge Forum. Bynum outlined her reasons for being pessimistic about recent changes in women's roles at the University...
Professor H. Stuart Hughes, who held a similar auction at the Unitarian Church in Cambridge which raised money for his 1962 senatorial campaign, commented. "Artists are unusually generous. They give paintings that would sell for thousands of dollars, and they're out that much money. You don't find citizens of many kinds giving that...
...more influence on religion than the other way round. Among liberal clergymen, at least, there is something of a scramble to keep up with youthful ideas on sex. Permissive Catholic priests let their views become known and so in effect encourage liberated youngsters to seek them out for confession. Unitarian churches give courses for 12-to 14-year-olds "About Your Sexuality," complete with frank lectures and discussions, as well as films showing intercourse, masturbation and homosexuality...
While Edmund Muskie organized the courthouses, Stearns' volunteers concentrated on the precincts. In Kansas, Stearns recruited college students; in one district, they started working simply with lists of members of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Unitarian and Methodist Churches. They won 17 delegates. "No wonder the Democrats can't carry Kansas," says Stearns, a 27-year-old Rhodes scholar. "There's something wrong with a party organization if they can't prevent a delegate sweep by a bunch of college kids...
...church and its branches might well be called the "unitarian" wing of the occult. The members invest themselves with some of the most flamboyant trappings of occultism, but magic for them is mostly psychodrama ?or plain old carnival hokum. They invoke Satan not as a supernatural being, but as a symbol of man's self-gratifying ego, which is what they really worship. They look down on those who actually believe in the supernatural, evil or otherwise...