Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, met with House Masters last week to discuss how to improve communication on the issue of South Africa within the Harvard community...
Margaret Mead accomplished what few anthropologists have ever attained--public fame. She helped popularize what for most Americans was an obscure field dealing with foreign cultures in far-flung places. Not only was she one of the first anthropologists to write for the general public but in her fieldwork in Samoa, New Guinea, Bali and even South Dakota she also attempted to integrate psychology and anthropology into a more all-inclusive social science...
Terming the discussion a "brain-storming," Hutchison said Steiner's meeting with the Masters was not unusual, noting that other administrators have attended the monthly meetings in the past. "It is unusual, however, to wait until you have a demonstration and then have the general counsel talk about how to behave," Hutchison added...
...charge would be kidnapingr keeping a member against his will. But invariably when the FBI has investigated such a charge, agents have been told by the supposedly kidnaped person that he or she was perfectly content to stay in the cult. Says Robert Keuch, a U.S. deputy assistant attorney general who is familiar with sects and their practices: "What may be brainwashing to a parent or other relative may be belief to the alleged victim...
...foreign press reaction to the Jonestown massacre. As so often happens in moments of great American triumph or tragedy, the world press gasped, grimaced and then gushed forth explanations. Several foreign weeklies published long stories on both the deaths of 911 Peoples Temple members and on the general phenomenon of cults in the U.S. Surprisingly, only the Communist press used Jonestown as an occasion for lashing at U.S. society as a whole...