Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual and moral tradition, the questioning not of a particular authority but of the concept of authority itself. A nation needs a sense of history as much as it needs a sense of the future; it needs tradition not as a soporific, but as a means of measuring itself. Anthropologist Loren Eiseley defines the problem: "It would be an awful bother to have to reorient oneself every morning. If you build a skyscraper so rigid that it cannot sway, it will crack and break under the tension. The same is true of social institutions; change must be allowed...
...help celebrate its birthday, Kansas invited a sampling of intellectuals: Designer Buckminster Fuller, former Supreme Court Justice Charles Whittaker, Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, Broadway Producer-Director Harold Clurman, Rule-of-Law Expert Arthur Larson. But the center of attention was a long-dead Kansas woman, Carry Nation. For the centennial observation, which will go on for six months, Composer Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), now a visiting professor at K.U., wrote an opera about that booze-hating feminist's tortured marriage and bar-smashing career. Now in rehearsal at the university's handsome...
Having prowled among the adolescents of Samoa, the housewives of Bali and the husbands of the Mundugumor on New Guinea, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 64, should be prepared for her next field trip. Next fall she will teach elementary anthropology at darkest Yale...
...chance to experiment with some of his theories his first year here, when the Freshman Seminar Program was just beginning. Riesman, working with an anthropologist, a political scientist, and a psychologist, organized one of the first seminars...
...turned over to Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus' legs were not broken with mallets as were those of the robbers crucified with him; vinegar supplied to him by an unnamed onlooker, which in the Gospels preceded his "giving up the ghost," was probably a drug. University of California Anthropologist Michael J. Harner, corroborating Schonfield, said last week that wine made from the mandrake plant was used in Palestine to induce a deathlike state in persons who were being crucified...