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...uninformed who could possibly think such a statement. First of all "he and his fellow sociobiologists" is a cop-out. We're talking about DeVore here, and only DeVore. And Irven DeVore did his graduate work in social anthropology at what was (and maybe still is) the leading intellectual center in the United States: University of Chicago. DeVore has studied in depth the disciplines of psychology and social and cultural anthropology and could utter in five minutes more knowledge on subjects in these "human" fields than Mr. Emmerich might be able to come up with in five hours...
...writing skill and thematic continuity Emmerich employed in composing his statement, how did he jump from his "no evidence" criticism to a rather strong and unconfirmable remark of DeVore's politics. I am sure that Irven DeVore and the students who applauded his words that night in Science Center Lecture Hall B have as much "guilt" about inequalities existing in the world today as J. Wyatt Emmerich; and secondly, that Irven DeVore has served the process and cause of correcting those inequalities, through the publishing of books, articles, and the presentations of lectures, at least as much, if not more...
...minor details wrong. Our species, Homo sapiens, is never spelled with a lower-case h. Irven DeVore's name is not spelled "DeVore." The overflow crowd in Science Center C was watching on a live video system, not "watching on video tape." And the ovation DeVore received was not a "standing" one, to the best of my recollection and that of a friend, both of us seated in the very last row of Science Center...
...time of the sea-drift, rippling the dancers' bodies like wind on water. Meg Streeter's "Waves Blown Back" was less articulate, though still structured with thematic clarity. Streeter's dancers flashed across the stage in nimble zigzags, exploring the buoyant thrust of clean angles from a compact center...
...violent action may be a realistic alternative to institutional violence as the ultimate sanction of social systems, Gene Sharp, a research fellow for the Center for International Studies, told a group of about 40 people at Science Center B yesterday...