Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these as in all her elegant, strange writings Elizabeth Madox Roberts combines the qualities of a dancer, a painter, an anthropologist and a woman. As a dancer she handles space and motion with uncommon delicateness: the void of a deserted mansion, the soft shiftings-together of barn beasts, the motions of two small sisters who, with entwined arms, "pulled and twisted each other about as one creature." As a painter she delivers some of the most firmly structural, curiously cleansed landscapes in U. S. writing. As an anthropologist she is almost too sharply aware of the symbolic undertones of rural...
...Remus who founded Rome in 753 B.C. In 1940 A.D. from South Africa came a scarcely more credible tale of a black boy reared among baboons (TIME, April 1). Between these doubtful tales are 22 cases of children reared in the wilds by wolves, bears, leopards, etc. to which anthropologists credit some authenticity.* But only one case is open to real scientific study: the wolf-children of Midnapore, whose rescuer described them with camera and diary. World authority on these incarnations of Kipling's Mowgli is Anthropologist Robert Mowry Zingg of the University of Denver, who has taken over...
...Anthropologist Aleś Hrdlička of the Smithsonian Institution tirelessly measures human skulls both quick and dead...
...repudiate the doctrine that men and apes evolved from a common primate stock. Harvard's Earnest Albert Hooton thinks the shoe should be on the other foot. "Any respectable ape," he writes, ''would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with man." Much publicized, highly controversial Anthropologist Hooton has a high regard for gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, etc.; an increasingly low regard for the social and biological status of man. Last week the dismal state of humanity lifted his talent for caustic castigation to new heights...
Cried Isolationist Senator Bennett Champ Clark: "Outrageous proposition . . . senile, reactionary president of Columbia . . . pothouse Republican politician." On the Columbia campus, meanwhile, eight professors (including Anthropologist Franz Boas, Economist Wesley Mitchell, Sociologist Robert Lynd, Chemist Harold Urey) asked their president to clarify his views on their freedom...