Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade ago, Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer wrote a much reprinted article on "the pornography of death." Gorer's point, also made by German Theologian Helmuth Thielicke, is that death is coming to have the same position in modern life and literature that sex had in Victorian times. Some support for the theory is provided by the current movie The Loved One, which turns death into a slapstick dirty joke...
...wailing and expressing grief and loneliness. What effect does this have on us psychologically? It may mean that we have to mourn covertly, by subterfuge-perhaps in various degrees of depression, perhaps in mad flights of activity, perhaps in booze." In his latest book, Death, Grief and Mourning, Anthropologist Gorer warns that abandonment of the traditional forms of mourning results in "callousness, irrational preoccupation with and fear of death, and vandalism...
...president started by thinning out deadwood; only three of 15 deans then ruling still hold their jobs. He brought in his own vice president, Michigan Anthropologist Frederick P. Thieme. In 1964 a teachers' suit, carried to the Supreme Court, killed the loyalty oath and let Odegaard hire capable teachers from near and far. Oppenheimer now appears on campus every so often-most recently early this month, when the National Academy of Sciences picked Washington for its annual meeting...
Unpaid Faculty. Such intellectuals as Harvard's President Emeritus James B. Conant, Historians Henry Steele Commager and Richard Hofstadter, Anthropologist Margaret Mead and Economist Walt W. Rostow have voluntarily served on the Salzburg faculty without pay. Seminar topics are U.S. art and culture, the political, economic and social structure, education, and-every year without fail-"American Law and Legal Institutions...
INTERN, by Doctor X. At the end of each exhausting week that he spent as an intern in a metropolitan hospital, Doctor X wearily logged every last event on his tape recorder. The result is as remote and fascinating as an anthropologist's field report, as immediate and authentic as a skilled eyewitness account...