Word: believerism
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But, as memories of Saturday Night Fever suggest, Badham can be more than a high-tech hardware merchant. The first portions of WarGames are nearly irresistible. The reason that the mighty WOPR comes across as funny is that David, a bright high school lad (played by a very savvy young...
DIED. Eric Hoffer, 80, the crusty, self-taught longshoreman-philosopher whose 1951 work The True Believer dissected fanaticism; in San Francisco. An itinerant laborer for much of his early life, Hoffer was widely known in the '60s through his syndicated newspaper column. He gave it up in 1970-"I...
In his new role as a self-described "citizen of our Atlantic community," Helmut Schmidt has become, if anything, even more outspoken than during his eight years as Chancellor of West Germany. He still has harsh things to say about U.S. leadership of the alliance. But he remains a firm...
In some ways, Freeman's book is a strong and well-researched anthropological work on Samoan society. He provides a valuable chronicle of the scientific and intellectual battles in which Mead could not avoid participating, and traces the development of the opposing views of biological and cultural determinism during the...
By the time he was Margaret Mead's dissertation advisor in the early 1920s. Boas was the pre-eminent figure in anthropology, a man determined to keep cultural anthropology as a discipline completely separate from biology. Margaret Mead, then, went to Samoa, Freeman says, as Boas' disciple, a believer in...