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FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Part 1 of four general discussions on the question: "Is Peace Possible?" Correspondent Edwin Newman talks to Anthropologist Dr. Ashley Montagu on whether man's ability to settle his differences through argument rather than force can apply to nations as well...
Ulysses Nudged. This is a list, like the criminal archives of the homicide bureau, for the social anthropologist and the moralist to brood upon. Many of the items on these dolorous statistics may make one skeptical of universal literacy...
...anthropologist previously, Curle decided after World War II that "I didn't want to spend the rest of my life studying societies. I wanted to study the people who make up society." He returned to Oxford, earned a Ph.D. in anthropology and psychology in 1950, and went to work teaching social psychology at Oxford. But social psychology left him restless. Before long, he switched to education. "Many social ills might be prevented," he argues. "They could be prevented through the wise use of education." Curle transferred to the University of Exeter, teaching education and psychology...
...once with stimulation and without undue intrusiveness. But one might also find a few professors who would be willing to serve as mentors who could periodically help the Volunteers assimilate their own experience, to the extent that they might care to do so. These could be anthropologists familiar with the host country, as in the case of the wandering anthropologist in Ethiopia who encouraged a Volunteer there, bored by routine duties, to record and exotic African language; or they could be men with a particular interest in American values, such as myself, who could talk to Volunteers...
...replacement has never been a regular reviewer. A Bryn Mawr graduate who went on to study comparative literature at Harvard and spent a year at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Renata Adler has written wryly and perceptively on a variety of subjects in her five years with The New Yorker: literary critics, group therapy, civil rights marchers, and New Leftists. But fertile as she has been in ideas, she felt she was running out of them, and so looks forward to the rigors of daily criticism. Her taste in movies is eclective...