Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faith Restored...
When I read of all the inhumanity that exists today, I need the knowledge of Geel and its compassionate citizens to restore my faith in mankind...
...love. Great, but what does it mean? Well, says Spreen, "if you care about your fellow citizens no matter what their hue, that's love. If you do your thing well within the law and within the bounds of propriety, that's love. If you have faith in people and your police, that's love...
Such a proposal requires great faith in people's ability to perceive their own interests. It may be that such faith is outmoded in this age of manipulation by mass media. But the fact remains that there is no plausible route to radical change in America that does not involve the support by the majority of the population. The Cubans or the Vietnamese are not going to save us, and there can be no talk of violent revolution from within while the government continues to control the instruments of violence. The second fact is that the radical solution, in whatever...
...more substantial than "a wind blowing through the palm trees." Other Pacific investigators have produced evidence that runs counter to her assessments of tribal personality. Most of all, anthropologists stand aghast at the way her powerful mind sometimes links fact and implication with little more than pure faith. One of her sternest critics, Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris, says dryly: "The courage of one's convictions is a blessing with which Mead has been liberally endowed." She permits few ripostes. When attacking the wrongheadedness of a fellow scholar, says a cowed friend, "she is truly like one of those terrible...