Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychologist, a non-anthropologist, a non-theologian, a non-ethologist--as in fact nothing more than a novelist--I qualify through my ignorance as a terrestrial Martian. Since I am only a novelist, a somewhat estranged and bewildered person whose business it is to see things and people as if he had never seen them before, it is possible for me not only to observe scientists observing people as data--in short to take a Martian view...
...holding his annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...
...pivotal role of scientists in America, analyzed by Anthropologist Loren Eiseley...
Among the more inspired bits of rhetoric was Anthropologist Edmund Leach's charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as "the last desperate dream of dull, dim tradesmen without vision, imagination or self-respect, feeling for life or history...
...rarely stay with parents any more; even young singles are encouraged to strike out on their own. Those who leave frequently lose contact with their parents because of distance or because they are too busy to bother with the old folks, and may even be embarrassed by them. Says Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 73, and a grandmother: "The modern family, in its present form, is not equipped to care for old persons...