Word: ham-handedness
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Traditional academics have tended to look down on sex researchers as pushy, ham-handed amateurs, and the arguments for incest will do little to change that view. The literature shows absolutely no attention to psychological realities: that often an adolescent and surely a small child can hardly produce anything like...
The cast, for the most part, deserves such a show--one would be pressed to find three stage personalities as obnoxious as Brian McCue, Grace Shohet, and Fred Barton. With his pinched face and short catalogue of exaggerated expressions, McCue mugs like an eight-year old who wants a new...
...Ham-Handed Test
Though some of Wilson's critics wildly distorted what he said, the professor was indeed ham-handed in applying the new sociobiological principles to humans. Now he has attempted to repair the damage with a new book, On Human Nature. While Wilson is more diplomatic in discussing the implications of...
Eager for a showdown at the anthropology convention, opponents of sociobiology tried to push through a ham-handed resolution condemning the new science as "an attempt to justify genetically the sexist, racist and elitist status quo in human society." The resolution also deplored sociobiology's pernicious influences on the...