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...repeated in years to come and should take its place with Amahl and the Night Visitors as a perennial holiday TV favorite. This week Thurber fans may get another treat on Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS-TV), which is presenting Elliott Nugent in The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl...
...PAUL C. BRUHL...
...sociology, psychology, ethnology, paleontology. Few living men in this vast field have plowed over all of it. The venerable Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) surveyed the realm of savage culture. Sir Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian Institution's famed Ales Hrdlicka is a physical...
...Paradoxical though it be," says Dr. Roback, "most of the major Jewish philosophers of the present day are not willing to own up to any Jewish influence." Henri Bergson stoutly denied that either his style or his ideas revealed any Semitic traits. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, distinguished anthropologist, thought his work was typically French. But the question, Dr. Roback thought, was not likely to be settled by comparing the work of known authors. He hit on the idea of trying to sort Jews from non-Jews in the writings of unknown persons. Accordingly he persuaded a colleague to let him have...
...which may affect a whole village. Among various tribes such horrendous offenses may be looking one's mother-in-law in the face, pronouncing a husband's name, milking of cows by a woman. Almost everywhere one of the greatest crimes is incest. Dr. Lévy-Bruhl believes that philosophers looking for some obscure moral or esthetic urge to explain the primitive horror of incest are on the wrong track. Incest frightens the savage because it is abnormal, and the perpetrators are put to death not so much to punish them as to rid the community...