Word: konrad
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...behind that notorious writer's decision to stage a mock murder of one of the revolution's leaders in "The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade." According to director Kerry Konrad '78, this play within a play, in which neither the passion of the revolution, of the marquis or of the inmates seems to know any bounds, is particularly suited to the Mainstage. When it opens there on November 2 with a cast of more than 40, its powerful "total theater...
...liberal view that believes we can make people better simply by improving their environment." After days given to pondering sociobiological research and theories with Reporter-Researcher Gaye Mclntosh, Leo observes: "Spend enough time with it and you'll be looking at your own behavior the way Konrad Lorenz looks at geese...
Many recent theorists?such as Nobel-prizewinning Ethologist Konrad Lorenz and Scots Biologist V.C. Wynne-Edwards?have focused on the group or species as the primary unit of selection. Darwin wrote that it was the individual organism. But Sociobiologists believe it is the genes themselves that conduct the life-or-death evolutionary struggle. This gene-based view of life is compatible with a finding made independently by researchers in a widely divergent branch of science. Rutgers Biochemist George Pieczenik has discovered patterns in DNA coding that he sees as evidence of selection occurring at the molecular level (TIME, April...
...initiated currency reform, then abolished price controls and rationing. His rationale: "Turn the people and the money loose, and they will make the country strong." It worked. West Germany became Europe's most prosperous power. A strong supporter of the Common Market and European integration, Erhard succeeded Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor in 1963 but stepped down three years later when his fragile, problem-riddled Christian Democratic coalition came apart...
Alec Nisbett, a physicist and science writer, plainly had ample access to Konrad Lorenz, the ethologist and author of the widely read books King Solomon's Ring and On Aggression. But Nisbett seems to have been overawed by his subject. As a result, he has failed to write a critical study of Lorenz and his work. Instead, he has produced an informative Festschrift...