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Word: anthropologist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last word, as usual, came from Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, who loves to give the American head a kindly pat. Wrote he in the Listener: "The best analogy that I can find for the peculiar American-ness of such painters ... is to compare their products to those of American automobile makers . . . American cars are well-designed and well-built, sleek and shiny, and they are very comfortable, as cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Americans Abroad | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...visiting anthropologist who knew very little about the U.S.-say, Englishman Geoffrey Gorer-were to read these two collections of stories, he might easily conclude that the U.S. is suffering from a hopeless schizophrenic split. And he might get just as wildly off base by picking up either one by itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Americas | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...heady articles as "A Remarkable Slab of Fossil Crinoids." Though Natural History still proudly numbers many eminent scientists among its readers, 95% of the copies now go to laymen. Stories and pictures are chosen with an eye to popular appeal as well as professional soundness. Sample eye-catching layout: Anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro's comparison of the dimensions of "Norma" (the average young U.S. woman) with those of Powers Model Rosemary Sankey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daffodils & Dinosaurs | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Refresher courses do not keep teacher abreast with now educational theories anthropologist Margaret Mead said last night in a talk on "the School in American Culture." Miss Mead delivered the Inglis Lecture on Secondary Education is Fogg lecture hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mead Talks About American Schools | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

Margaret M. Mead, well-known anthropologist and author of the recent book, "Male and Female," will deliver the annual Inglis Lecture in Secondary Education at 8 p.m. tonight in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. The subject will be "The School in American Culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author Mead Delivers Annual Inglis Lecture | 3/15/1950 | See Source »

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