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...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A pitiless exposure of poverty among Puerto Rican Americans, whose life stories are told largely by the subjects themselves into Anthropologist Lewis' tape recorder...
...Selective Service System. "There's a real nurse shortage in the armed forces." Will the girls be getting Greetings? Not for the present, Hershey quickly assured a reporter for the University of Michigan's daily newspaper. At a national conference on the draft in Chicago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 65, supported Hershey's idea of coed conscription to make national service truly equal and universal. She drew the line, though, at letting the ladies be battleaxes. "I do not believe in using women in combat," she said, "because females are too fierce...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis' tape-recorded view of Mexican poverty, gathered at its roots in The Children of Sanchez, cut considerably more deeply than most sociology goes. This time the compelling scene is poverty among the Puerto Ricans, and it is unrelievedly ugly...
Suffocating & Ugly. Whatever the Ríoses may suffer from-and they are all desperately poor-it is clearly not repression. Anthropologist-Author Oscar Lewis found them "closer to the expression of an unbridled id than any other people I have studied." As in his earlier experiments with total sociology -Five Families, The Children of Sánchez-Lewis lets his subjects tell their story into a tape recorder. In Sanchez, this approach produced something very much like poetry, as a fiercely proud, slum-dwelling Mexican family exposed their seams and their hearts to Lewis' patient, uncritical machine...
Saturday, November 19 ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Monkeying around with "The Primates," Anthropologist Loren Eiseley examines their disquieting similarity...