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Unfortunately, his thesis lends itself to misinterpretation, and to the non-expert the terms in which the evidence is presented can be misleading. Furthermore, as might be expected in any book of its size, there are certain factual errors. Undoubtedly Coon's insistence on a "racial temperament" would not be upheld by a majority of anthropologists. It is too bad that the errors seem to strengthen the racist argument...
...Veneer, and Progress," should carefully avoid being deterred by the first two pages. Mr. Burlage's opening rhetoric ("Dixie is booming and yet...Dixie is booming, and yet...") seems more suited to a political campaign than to an intellectual magazine. The rest of the article nevertheless contains a highly factual analysis of Southern industry-chasing programs, points out several uncomfortable dilemmas these policies have created...
...further perversion of Marxist ideals. Russia's nationalistic heroism in World War II and its postwar imperialism, the chilling struggle for Kremlin power after Stalin's death, and the sharp differences among Communist countries. Adlai Stevenson praises the book for its "new insights" and "fresh, factual appraisal...
...From the Earth to the Moon. Verne's fictional spaceship of 1865 was fired out of a giant cannon-and the shot would have failed, for several reasons. For one thing, air resistance would have slowed the moon-bound vehicle. But McDonald argues for a sophisticated, factual approach to the Verne fiction...
...results just summarized report factual evidence--subject's test reports or behavioral events, suicide or hospitalization. There are, of course, many papers describing lurid symptoms inferred by psychiatrists observing consciousness-expanding drug experiences. The psychiatric vocabulary is limited, ominous, and pathological. Gloomy diagnostic pronouncements by psychiatrists are such a routine symptom of our culture that we are prepared for that utopian mental health survey finding that one-third of us are psychotic, one-third neurotic and one-third cured or in treatment. But, when we ask subjects to describe their own reaction or when we count the objective behavioral events...