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Word: fitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contending that Mead interprets too freely, critics ignore the fact that anthropology can never be a science. Mead's conclusions can stand because anthropological interpretations are always theoretical. No experiments can prove them right or wrong, since observed systems and institutions can easily be distorted to fit any proposed paradigm. Nor does anthropology deal with predictable data because man is an essentially is an unpredictable organism. Finally, anthropology isn't objective. It involves an observer interacting directly with other humans. Try as the anthropologist might to analyze and objectify what he sees, some amount of subjectivity is bound to seep...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Mead: A Humanist's Legacy | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...their own warplanes. By next year, most bases will be able to accommodate all NATO aircraft. This is being achieved through extensive training of ground crews, stocking bases with a wide range of spare parts and ammunition and doing such deceptively simple things as designing nozzles to fit the gas tanks of all NATO planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Can Move Damned Fast | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...most intriguing?and riskiest?changes are those that cosmetics makers try in order to fit their products to women's mental pictures of themselves. Theirs is a complicated and mysterious business in which product, packaging and advertising must work together to present a unified appeal to emotions that may be partly unconscious. Revlon has pushed this psychological approach as hard as anyone, as is best illustrated by a three-part tale that also is a commentary on American lifestyles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Frank Manning, a salesman for the Wellesley Press, said yesterday his firm told The Advocate last May it would not publish the magazine starting this year because it no longer fit the firm's production process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Printing | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

...hard day." Sidewalk Santas have to stand for ten or twelve hours a day. Store Santas have their own problems. As Debbie Bennett of Western Temporaries put it, "The work is hard.... Children are apt to pull his beard or heckle him.... They might take a fit or wet on Santa." Many suffer and sweat inside the heavy suit and padding--the B. Altman's Santa lamented going through "numerous T-shirts" and stinking all the way home to Long IsLand. A women once brought her chihuahua to be photographed with the Jordan Marsh Santa. "It was terrible," he said...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Which One Is Real? | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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