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...significant because it aligns him with the sociobiologists-a loose collection of zoologists, geneticists and social scientists who argue that evolutionary animal behavior can explain human behavior today. In extending the earlier findings of the ethologists, whose ideas a generation ago became popular with Konrad Lorenz, the sociobiologists assert that despite man's centuries-long effort to insist that he is distinctively different from his fellow animals, one proper study of mankind is beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Beastly or Manly? | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...student porter once heard Carolyn Randall '77 assert: "I think it's ridiculous that people can't clean their own bathrooms." But he also heard Bonny Landers say, "I'm grateful for the job. It's either this or being a barmaid in Boston." The student porter is filled with ambivalence as he is sucked into a confrontation he does not desire, his mop is not even...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: Bab-O, Brooms, and Toilet Bowls | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...agrees to marry Arthur, and Stomil (effectively portrayed by Tom Champion) also finds his orchestrated chaos turned to order by his son. Arthur finally convinces his father to assert his masculinity in a conventional, gun-toting way, but soon brute force supplants indoctrination in the son's effort to use "tradition" as the key to the future. Once the family agrees to the traditional marriage and accepts "order," Arthur begins to seek other answers; from "order" he shifts to "death," and then to "power...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Tails and Short Pants | 4/24/1976 | See Source »

...been observing anorexics for more than 35 years and has written a book on them. Bruch has developed a psychological composite portrait of the typical anorexic victim: they were, she says, model children who behaved with robot-like obedience because they doubted their abilities to stand up for and assert themselves. Their dieting usually began inexplicably, following trivial remarks about their appearance or upon a change of environment, like going to camp or college. In new situations, the anorexic feels embarassed about being chubby or not athletic enough, and begins dieting...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: ANOREXIA NERVOSA | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

Since Chou's death in early January the left has tried to assert its voice, especially in education, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, said yesterday...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Sinologists See Peking Riots As Reaction to Anti-Chou Left | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

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