Word: environmental
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Pennypacker's abrupt rise in esteem--"from the pits to the Ritz," as one former resident characterized it--provides plenty of fodder for characterized it--provides plenty of fodder for armchair sociologists quick to find an incisive explanation for any new trend. While finding any people who say they are...
From the cool, detailed gaze of photorealism on its plastic environment to romantic landscapists in Maine to the obsessive stare of the California painter who took seven years to finish a small picture of a few inches of sand, grain by grain, the variety is infinite. Photography has acquired a...
Burt's research has been quoted by many scientists who argue that low test scores of black children result from genetic inferiority rather than environment, David R. Layzer '47, professor of Astronomy, said yesterday.
Supporters of Kamin's theories and those who believe I.Q. scores to be largely determined by environment, not heredity, point to Burt's works as the only substantial scientific evidence contradicting their "environmental influence" theories, and see its apparent refutation as a major blow to its credibility...
If one accepts Wilson's studies and analysis, there is a certain internal consistency to his arguments. But it disintegrates when one examines the means of punishment. American prisons--especially the state and county institutions where most convicted street criminals serve their sentences--are brutalizing and dehumanizing beyond toleration. A...