Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Geoffrey Gorer, British anthropologist and journalist, in the Georgia Review: "They are haunted by fear of rape; but though this is mostly envisaged in the crudest physical shape, it is probably a second spiritual violation which they dread even more. Terrified of being overwhelmed by violence, they use violence and the threat of violence to avert this disaster...
...American Sex Standards" will be discussed at the November 5 forum, Richard A. Holman, president of the Law School Forum, announced yesterday. Dr. Margaret Meade, cultural anthropologist of the Museum of Natural History in New York and Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, author and psychiatrist, will occupy the platform...
...Congo plunge four white men in search of legendary Mt. Nagala. All four men are searching for something: Samuel for a brilliant friend who once started for Nagala and was never heard from again; Marius, the mineralogist, for rare metals; Joshua, the entomologist, for rare insects; Alessandro, the anthropologist, for "secret gods...
Died. Dr. Franz Weidenreich, 75, famed German-born anthropologist; in Manhattan. His research on Asiatic skull fossils led to a revolutionary theory that modern man was descended from a giant rather than a pygmy predecessor. Aided by discoveries of Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, he revamped the chronology of human evolution, placed the huge Gigantopithecus (450-550,000 years old) as man's earliest known ancestor...
Private boarding schools, despite their social amenities and allegedly tougher curricula, take a scholastic back seat to high schools. Research made public this week by a Grant Study anthropologist reveals that College students with a high school background consistently outrank their private school counterparts...