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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nomamö happen to have been studied at a time when their patterns of warfare and raiding were still intact. It also seems to be the case that outsiders came to know them during an unusually tumultuous period. As a result, disproportionate attention has been focused on the role of aggression and violence in Yãnomamö society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 31, 1976 | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...this ever-less meaningful relationship be saved? Bill Bumpers, a fledgling marriage counselor and self-described "victim of an intact home," tries his best. He advises Hattie and Ma to humor Heck in his plan to set up a ménage à trois with a local sculptress. Hattie promises her husband that Ma will not interfere: "She knows four's a crowd." But the crowd at Pretty Pass (as Heck now calls his farm) keeps growing; no sooner is someone hired to do the actual work around the place than he is seduced by the "crackle of civilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Mislaid | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Since assuming the ambassadorship to the United Nations, Moynihan has discarded the sophisticated--and more moderate--husk of his polemic, leaving the simplistic fruit intact. In an article in the March, 1975 Commentary Moynihan classed the underdeveloped nations as a true third force in world politics: They were democratic socialist, in line with a West European colonial experience. He described these nations as by and large anti-American and redistributionist (rather than production-oriented, since he says socialism cannot be productive. Here Moynihan forgets the Soviet Union, which is unusual if only because it seems to dominate all his other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ideologue of the Reaction | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

...early going, the J.V. batmen showed promise of keeping their six-game winning streak intact...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Junior Varsity Batmen Complete Winning Season | 5/7/1976 | See Source »

...most temptation-beset person. When it comes right down to it, though, if you start with Hills's straight-forward view of vice, the actual how of being virtuous isn't that complicated--if you want to be good, why not just do it (leave your car window intact, pay for your books, etc)? Virtue costs money, to be sure; but the part that really bothers Hills--what makes how to be good a question he can sink his teeth into--is that he's convinced virtue is deadly dull...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A Noble Question | 4/9/1976 | See Source »

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