Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Wilson has been picketed, and at Harvard, the left-wing Committee Against Racism has called sociobiology "dangerously racist." The committee also charged that the new science would give comfort to the supporters of Psychologist Arthur Jensen, a leading proponent of another controversial theory: that racial differences in IQs have a genetic basis. Wilson angrily called that attack "slander," and even Lewontin came to his defense, conceding that "sociobiology is not a racist doctrine." But he added, "Any kind of genetic determinism can and does feed other kinds, including the belief that some races are superior to others...
...many, such explanations of noble deeds are cold comfort. But Harvard Anthropologist Melvin J. Konner sees a bright side to reciprocal altruism. Sociobiologists, he says, "have in fact uplifted [human nature] by showing that altruism, long thought to be a thin cultural veneer, belongs instead to the deepest part of our being, produced by countless aeons of consistent evolution...
...Jones and Harvey Schmidt, is unlikely to have the same success, largely because its authors don't seem to have caught on to that fact. The musical manages to incorporate every cliche ever proposed about marriage--from the shy newlyweds through the crises of middle age to the comfort of old age--without surprising the audience once. Quite a feat, but tedious nonetheless...
...John W. Comfort Hager City...
...deep religious feeling, a romantic view of knowledge and intense ambition. Once he had wept when he listened to a Communion hymn. He read Scripture and prayed daily. The President was convinced that God was accessible, both through prayer and in His revealed word, which provided both strength and comfort. He also found occasion, said the his torian, to interpret as the Lord's will convictions that other men attributed to less remote sources, and to find considerable moral content in issues that other men felt were secular and casual. Because of this, the President sometimes relied less upon...