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...Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade, by Geoffrey Gorer. British Anthropologist Gorer makes De Sade seem more rake than sadist, but he makes clear why De Sade's writings were revived by existentialist thinkers...
Geoffrey Gorer, a British anthropologist, treats the violent marquis much too nicely. He almost turns him into a cranky English squire. Even so, Gorer discovers in De Sade "a misanthropy that is unequaled in human history...
...fight to get women astronauts accepted by solidly misogynistic NASA: I'm tempted to go out to the barn and tell the story to my horse and listen to him laugh." Added Clare Boothe Luce: "We must stop trying to make paper dolls of our women." Anthropologist Margaret Mead commented acidly: "The Russians treat men and women interchangeably. We treat men and women differently...
...vague ideal of flexibility. The Generally Educated man who has taken its new courses is not prepared for participating in a democracy so much as processing his own perceptions. He learns what it is like to put on the biologist's thinking cap or the musician's or the anthropologist's. If he comes out of school dedicated to an ideal it is something he has picked up on his own time. In his courses he deals with analyzing problems...
...film, which shows bushmen hunting a giraffe, was praised by the late Harvard anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn, as "the most remarkable anthropological film I have ever seen. It takes the viewer as close as he can ever hope to get to the life of the Stone...