Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geoffrey Gorer is a British anthropologist who writes of the American people with the poker-faced detachment of an anthropologist studying the tribal dances and customs of an Indian tribe. Most Americans, reading his book, will probably feel that they have been made fun of, mocked and double-crossed, for having let an outlander into the midst of their tribal rites...
...Speaking as an anthropologist," Professor Kluckhohn declared that "our values can not be completely right, nor the Russians' completely wrong...
Missing Links. Far from justifying the grand inclusiveness of the book's title, this sampling has been denounced by British Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as "so poor that the only reliable figures are those for [white U.S.] college graduates in six [northeastern and Midwestern] states." Kinsey himself admits that he has not yet assembled adequate data on men over 50, on infants and very young children, on the "rural population," on "a number of the religious groups," on factory workers, and on Negroes...
Earnest A. Hooton, self-winding Harvard anthropologist, unwound a wallop at love on the dole. "Stupid, shiftless, and improvident human beings breed the most rapidly," he informed a California lecture audience, "because they feel little responsibility to their offspring and recognize no obligation to society. . . . If we must feed and foster the incompetent, we should at the same time prevent their reproducing their kind...
Greece's Prince Peter, 39-year-old anthropologist (and cousin of King Paul), was still in good shape after sampling the native customs of Manhattan. In the U.S. for a lecture tour, the Prince and his pretty Princess Irene submitted themselves to a subway ride and hot dogs at a Times Square stand-up counter. They then returned to the Ritz-Carlton...