Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sociobiological theory and research deals almost exclusively with the evolved system of adaptations a species shares in common. Contrary to the curiously parallel assertions of SFTP and the neo-fascist groups, explaining behavioral differences between individuals or groups by attributing them to genetic differences between individuals or groups ferences between individuals or groups is not any central element of the paradigm-- most would agree that it is not an element at all. The fields that address such questions are genetics, and the moribund "trait" psychology. Since the paradigm deals with the adaptations of species, it cannot logically be made...
...same human reality. The barbed wire in South Africa, Brazil Russia and Chile, Berlin and China is the shadow of the barbed wire that is stretched through our minds. The seed of that darkness is everywhere, and our hope lies in the fragile unfolding of our knowledge of the common roots of human suffering. We cannot afford to forego the illumination of those sources which may lie in the distant past of human evolution...
...films will certainly date quickly, like the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope Road to... series with which they have much in common. But Woody, though sprightly, dislikes himself for his relentless spry evasiveness (and it's been less and less prominent in his recent films); the innocence that met a popular demand in the post-war years won't do in the sophisticate seventies...
Fabrizio said that the Ashram could not possibly operate without a common dwelling place. The Ashram is like a seminary, although the two are not equivalent, he added...
...blind, Henny, has battled breast cancer for two years without anybody catching on--hence bosoms and neglect. Scooper, never too lucky with the girls, was about to run off to Haiti with his best friend's wife when Mom's illness was uncovered. He met Dierdre through their common analyst, Dr. James. In her apartment, while Henny's on the operating table, they spill out their tribulations and prayers. Their idiocyncrasies, it seems, know no bounds; as well as Dr. James, they share an unquenchable thirst for books. They talk in allusion, carry old volumes everywhere, and make love while...