Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made him just miserable every time he had to stand up or bend over. No wonder he felt like killing people. This fascinating historical tidbit came to light when the Russians removed Czar Ivan IV (1530-84) from his Kremlin tomb last year and turned the bones over to Anthropologist-Sculptor Mikhail Gerasimov, a specialist in reconstructing physical appearance from bone structure. Gerasimov got the backache idea from studying the skeleton, has now finished two busts of the 16th century ruler-one showing the muscles of Ivan's left side, and the other showing what he looked like. Ouch...
...actually rare in the U.S.-at least officially-miscegenation by cohabitation is another matter, rooted largely in the South's unspoken mores. According to one study by University of Wisconsin Sociologist Robert Stuckert, 21% of white Americans are "descendants of persons of African origin." By the calculation of Anthropologist Melville Herskovitz, 72% of U.S. Negroes have white ancestors...
Genuinely getting to know him comes harder, and therein lies the value of Oscar Lewis, 49, a University of Illinois anthropologist gifted with facile Spanish, a guileless face and a pleasantly disarming manner. Lewis' method is to insinuate himself into the bosom of a Mexican family and stay for months, becoming as much a household fixture as the tortilla griddle, as comfortable as a worn pair of huaraches. The pencil scribbles across the notebook pages; the recorder spools gently turn...
...publicity usually given to distinguished speakers at Harvard makes the case of Dr. L. S. B. Leakey a rather strange paradox. Dr. Leakey, a world-famous archaeologist and anthropologist who has devoted his life to the discovery and study of fossil man, delivered a lecture here on the night of April 9th to a packed audience of students as well as a host of prominent anthropologists. Leakey discussed the significance of his recent discovery of a new species of man, Homo habilis, which is older than any other known hominid. His discovery necessitates an important revision of thought about human...
...Christendom. Attempting "smiling satire," Menotti has a Vassar girl (Roberta Peters) go to India in search of the Abominable Snowman. Her father (Morley Meredith) meets a maharajah and arranges a marriage of convenience between his daughter and the maharajah's son (Nicolai Gedda). But the girl is an anthropologist, and she insists upon her savage. Her father offers a peasant (George London) $100,000 to play the role, and the ersatz savage allows himself to be packed off to Chicago...