Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right Side. For its birthday issue this week. Foreign Affairs rounded up a particularly illustrious list of contributors, including West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ("The German Problem. A World Problem"), Anthropologist Margaret Mead ("The Underdeveloped and the Overdeveloped"), Guinea's leftist President Sékou Touré ("Africa's Future and the World"). Nigeria's West-leaning Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa ("Nigeria Looks Ahead"), General Lucius D. Clay, with a plea for a strong policy on Berlin...
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and 13 summers from 1904 to 1919 living like an Eskimo while exploring uncharted polar ice fields. In 1911 the wiry explorer made his most important find: a tribe of blonde-haired Eskimos living on Victoria Island, presumably descendants of the Vikings. A writer, lecturer, and curator...
...than 200 artifacts (20-ft. totemlike "bisj" poles, 40-ft.-long "spirit"' canoes, intricately carved wooden crocodiles), depicting every aspect of the ritual life of Dutch New Guinea's seafaring Asmat tribe. It was the last work of the museum's youngest trustee. Michael Rockefeller, 23, anthropologist son of New York's Governor, who was lost seven months ago when his frail catamaran swamped in the shark-teeming Arafura Sea off New Guinea...
...real life is a philosophy professor at Oxford, has denied herself many of the props she resorted to in her earlier novels. Scrapped is the totally grotesque seduction. (Nobody tries to make love in an upturned church bell.) Gone is the really weird character. (In one book, a lady anthropologist expertly brandishes a samurai sword and refers to herself as a severed head.) Except for a knife driven through a doll's heart, one attempted suicide, a to-do over whether old Hugh Peronett should sell his beloved Tintoretto, assorted partings and love scenes, not much happens...
Anti-Americanism has been a respected British attitude ever since the American Revolution, which, says Historian D. W. Brogan, was "the great defeat of the English ruling class." In recent years, the feeling has been aggravated by a condition that Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer calls megaloxenophobia - the fear or envy of The Big Stranger, i.e., the world's dominant power. But there is strong evidence that anti-Americanism is now on the wane...