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...People of the Lake to explaining why the line of hominids leading to the evolution of man survived while the Australopithecene line died out. He argues that at some point our hominid line developed a complex economic system of gathering and hunting that required cooperation between individuals in a clan. This cooperative system, besides being intrinsically more productive, engendered the evolution of a special intellectual capability on the part of our pre-historic ancestors. The brains of our ancestors became increasingly subtle and complex because cooperation in a society requires that its members be able to interact with each other...
...historian of Camelot," and his remembers of RFK are called a view through the "rheumy eyes of an old Cold War liberal." It is a shame, many write, that such a wealth of information about Kennedy had to come from the typewriter of such a loyal adherent of the clan. That Kennedy was an idealist, they don't dispute. But they resent Schlesinger's portrait of Kennedy as an ideal idealist--an untainted saint. Sure, Schlesinger received a Pulitzer Prize for history (1945) and one for biography (1965), but he also served on the campaign staff of Adlai Stevenson...
...assuage their grief by telling him about their suffering. One man who had lost his wife and six children had to be restrained by the Shah and bystanders, from tearing at his hair in the traditional demonstration of mourning. Councilman Bandegi estimated his loss in terms of his clan, the traditional Iranian family grouping. The clan, he said sadly, had lost 341 people, or 83%. Casualties ranged through all levels of Tabas' population. The governor of the town, Ali Mirinejad, 40, lost his wife, children and sister as their home collapsed around them. Mirinejad worked without sleep for the next...
Still, if the little lives of individual people sputter too briefly for careful notice, clan characteristics do take on recognizable shape. There are the Steeds, wealthy Catholic landowners, tending to be intellectual; the Paxmores, steadfast Quaker shipbuilders: the Caters, solid, intelligent descendants of Cudjo: and the Turlocks, swamp trotters and poachers. Their interlocking fortunes and catastrophes never quite qualify for the terms "gripping" or "absorbing," but they are consistently diverting. Therein lies the author's secret: an attraction that lies not so much in the story as in a serene detachment from the story. The reader gets a four...
...Count the bodies garroted with their own jargon in her previous book Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement (1970). Her new work is a tour of the most human of all movements, the family. She visits dozens of them around the country: a matriarchal black clan in Indiana, a tribe of patriarchal Greeks in Massachusetts, a conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where both parents are homosexual. There are also extranuclear families-communes...