Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrunken modern world still has pockets of mystery. One of the most mysterious is the Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) in southwestern Afghanistan, where the summer heat rises to 125° F., and the sand-laden wind reaches 90 m.p.h. Last week Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis of New York City's American Museum of Natural History told how in the midst of Dash-ti-Margo he and two associates had come upon a dead city forgotten by the modern world...
...Wells. Anthropologist Fairservis doubts the theory. He found that the city got its water not from.distant mountains but from many now dry wells, 60 feet deep, inside the walls. He thinks that a river changed its course, lowering the water table and making the city uninhabitable...
...Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, taking a hard look at his stricken countrymen, said: "His success . . . is almost entirely based on his personal appeal. To the English he is exotic, and since he is a foreigner who won't be around tomorrow, they let themselves be swept along by his personality. His appeal is emotional, and his openness and lack of shame are most welcome. He makes love to his audience...
...Read Benedict, R. 'Anthropology and the Humanities' in the American Anthropologist, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 585-84, 1948, for a point of view similar to yours...
...saying that the man who typifies our urban eastern civilization, the rising executive who rides the commuter's locals and hopes to send his children to good prep schools, is caught in a horrible treadmill. A rut is what you make of it; even Mr. Marquand's social anthropologist--a fascinating literary device, based partially on fact--indicates that he is tired of the South Seas rut and would like another. It is foolish to make treadmillers out of men who, as a class, are certainly no more frustrated than, for instance, successful novelists...