Word: lookingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weekes believes that in most cases psychoanalysis is the wrong approach. She has found that prolonged stress or shock?a death, divorce or birth ?can turn ordinary anxiety into a flash of panic. Then, she says, "the fear that it will recur keeps a person within a restricted orbit...
The intent man in the desert is Richard Erskine Leakey, heir to one of the greatest surnames in anthropology and, at 32, a formidable scientist in his own right. He and his dusty band are looking, almost lit erally, for footprints in the sands of time, for clues to the...
(7 of 10) theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments, and that huge gaps exist in the fossil record. Anthropologists, ruefully says Alan Mann of the University of Pennsylvania, "are like the blind men looking at the elephant, each sampling only a small part of the total reality." His...
Next to Malcolm Lowry, even such notorious literary flameouts as Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen Crane seem like models of mental health. During his 48 years, Lowry wrote one extraordinary novel, Under the Volcano (1947), and spent nearly every other waking hour looking for ways to destroy himself. His search for...
Munro is concerned that "in general, we resident correspondents worry too much about getting our next trip, just as outside journalists worry about getting their next visas. This sometimes leads to an almost unconscious self-censorship." Munro's own reports have not all been critical of China. He marveled last...