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Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote in 1961 thatstudents saw conformity as the key to conventionalsuccess: "[S]tatistics on national contests forscholarships and for admissions to especiallydesirable institutions have increased thewidespread sense that to succeed today it isnecessary to conform and to compete in terms ofnational norms...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote in 1961 thatstudents saw conformity as the key to conventionalsuccess: "[S]tatistics on national contests forscholarships and for admissions to especiallydesirable institutions have increased thewidespread sense that to succeed today it isnecessary to conform and to complete in terms ofnational norm...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote in 1961 thatstudents saw conformity as the key to conventionalsuccess: "[S]tatistics on national contests forscholarships and for admissions to especiallydesirable institutions have increased thewidespread sense that to succeed today it isnecessary to conform and to complete in terms ofnational norm...
...kiosk in Copley Square Park at the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Streets would violate the integrity of the recently-renovated and still fragile Copley Square Park. Copley Square is home to the historic Trinity Church (designed by H.H. Richardson, who also designed Harvard's Sever Hall) and McKim, Mead and White's magnificent Boston Public Library. These buildings constitute an important part of Boston's architectural and cultural heritage...
...Margaret Mead argued that "war is only an invention." She refused to regard it as an inevitable part of human baggage, the curse of the reptilian brain. John Keegan is agnostic in the nature-nurture argument. "All we need to accept," he writes in A History of Warfare (Knopf; 432 pages; $27.50), "is that, over the course of 4,000 years of experiment and repetition, warmaking has become a habit." Whether it is a filthy habit or, as sometimes happens, a dirty necessity, war obviously has transcendent excitements, temptations and mysteries. And it is the oldest drama: the epic...