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...Anthropologist Margaret Mead, perhaps because she is a woman, thinks trousers are just fine-although she rarely wears them. "Women are looking for greater freedom-freedom from corsets, girdles, tight belts, tight shoes-just as men have been trying to get out of tight collars," she says. Norman Norell, perhaps because he is a designer, thinks that a woman actually has more sex appeal in trousers than in a dress. "Ripping off a woman's pants is sexier than ripping off a dress," he says. (And harder, it might be added.) But Sociologist-Author Charles Winick (The New People...
...merely a specialist with some painfully acquired, crotchety expertise in, say, lesser metaphysical lyrical poets. His intelligence functions at all levels on a list of subjects that includes Dickens, Kipling, Sartre, Greene, Waugh, Koestler, Milton, "The Writer As Drunk" (Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan), Shaw, Joyce, pornography and Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss...
...with the district chief"?which pretty well sums up how many Americans come on in the eyes of the peasants. Most of all, dissenters object to the warm breath of the U.S. "presence" in the program. "It is hard to give the illusion of sovereignty," says Rand Corporation Anthropologist Gerald Hickey, who has been in Viet Nam since 1956. "We continue with the naive notion that nation building is saturating the country with American advisers...
...they were alive. He approaches American politics like an alert observer from a foreign-and slightly hostile-country ("American Empire" is one of his favorite phrases). On the subject of sex, he scarcely seems to belong to the human race at all, doing a marvelous impersonation of an anthropologist from Mars on a friendly but clinical visit...
...anthropologist," says one colleague, "she is not a Jesus. She is a St. Paul." Paul, of course, was not welcomed unequivocally by his fellow Christians, and for all her prestige, Dr. Mead is not considered beyond criticism by her colleagues. Younger anthropologists sometimes dismiss her broad field inquiries as no more substantial than "a wind blowing through the palm trees." Other Pacific investigators have produced evidence that runs counter to her assessments of tribal personality. Most of all, anthropologists stand aghast at the way her powerful mind sometimes links fact and implication with little more than pure faith...