Word: marshack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office but in his mid-Manhattan town house, at 13 West 54th Street. The phone call was made at 11:16, not at 10:15. And the caller was not an unknown woman but a quite familiar one to Rockefeller and his associates: Megan Marshack, 26, a research assistant who had been helping Rocky with various publishing projects and who lived just down the street in an apartment building at 25 West 54th Street...
Before joining Rocky's staff in 1976, Marshack had worked for Associated Press Radio in Washington for six months. Her former boss at A.P. Radio, Bill McCloskey, recalled her as an "aggressive news gatherer who came over classy. She was bright and ambitious, but not in the negative sense...
...contradictory statements about when the call was made to police raised the question of whether an hour had elapsed between the time that Rockefeller died and the time of the call. To judge from Marshack's somewhat hyterical conversation, which was taped by the police, Rocky's seizure had just occurred. That also was the verdict of the medical examiner. Morrow, who was not present, issued a series of corrections to his previous accounts, then declined further comment. Marshack went into seclusion...
...Marshack, a former science writer who has devoted 15 years to paleolithic studies, has suggested even bolder ideas. In his writings, notably The Roots of Civilization, he says that what looks like random scribbling on cave walls and even on some artifacts may actually represent many different symbol systems. These could have been used to record the passage of the seasons and astronomical observations and to indicate periods of rituals and ceremonies. If these controversial yet hardly dismissable ideas are correct, Cro-Magnon man may well have been experimenting with the precursors of writing, arithmetic, calendar making and other "civilized...
...Marshack asks the key question: "Did these traditions prepare the way for the artistic and symbolic traditions of the civilizations that began to develop not long after the ice melted, about 10,000 B.C.?" No one can say for sure whether paleolithic man did in fact light that intellectual spark. But it is undeniable, as Marshack notes, that the complex art comes from "persons like us, with our brains and our capacity, and that no visitors from space were required to teach them...