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While he was still at Harvard, he began his enormously erudite, monumental work on the gall wasp, a tiny insect of which some 3,000 species exist. Kinsey traveled 80,000 miles collecting gall wasps, and he measured, catalogued and preserved 3,500,000 specimens to demonstrate their individual variations. Under a microscope, he took and recorded 28 different measurements on each wasp...
...give a "Marriage Course." Students asked Kinsey about sex, and he was shocked to discover how little was known scientifically about the sexual behavior of human beings. Before this, he seems to have had no particular interest in the subject. But once he got started, it was the gall wasp all over again. When he began his research, some of his scientific colleagues (and their wives) cut him dead, and the period of semi-ostracism left him somewhat touchy and thin-skinned...
...reaction to Kinsey's gall-wasp approach to sex has been mixed, to say the least. His statistic-crammed, 804-page book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948), was published by a medical publishing house (W. B. Saunders Co.) and cost $6.50, but it shot up on the bestseller list with the aid of free publicity and loud denunciations. The weightiest denunciations came from religious and moral leaders, who pointed out that Kinsey's examination of men's sex life altogether denied the existence of any moral factor whatever in sexual relations...
...Landowska buzzed in her book Music of the Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo to give her a wasp waist, or if one tried to twist Apollo's nose in order to give him more character?" The first thing to do was to remove the overstuffed romantic upholstery from the original music. The second was to rediscover the true harpsichord in place of the "little gavotte players, toys...
...exercise. Mainbrace was conceived last year by General Eisenhower to convince NATO's Scandinavian members (Norway and Denmark) that their lands can be defended in the event of war with Russia. One morning last week, 85 men-of-war (including the U.S. carriers Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wasp, the Royal Navy carrier Eagle and battleship Vanguard) steamed in stately grey lines out of the Firth of Clyde. On the F.D.R.'s bridge, Skipper George W. Anderson made an announcement: "Any man who spots a periscope before it attacks gets special liberty to London...