Word: montagu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felt for women. In Pope's case, it did not prevent him from trying to play the rake at large in London, though with scant success. Quennell notes that his sexual adventures were "of a mercenary and transient kind," and that his platonic pursuit of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the one real love of his life, ended unhappily...
Genetic Tests. Some researchers have found that the XYY syndrome is 50 to 60 times more prevalent among convicts than in the general population. Others, among them Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, suggest that environmental factors are at least as important as chromosomal abnormality in causing criminal behavior. French Geneticist Jerome Lejeune, who in 1961 discovered the chromosomal abnormality that leads to Mongolism, agreed with Montagu during testimony at the Hugon trial-with an important qualification. "There are no born criminals," said Lejeune, "but persons with the XYY defect have considerably higher chances...
FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Part 1 of four general discussions on the question: "Is Peace Possible?" Correspondent Edwin Newman talks to Anthropologist Dr. Ashley Montagu on whether man's ability to settle his differences through argument rather than force can apply to nations as well...
...nearly 40 other cities, will be delivered to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon by a contingent of clergymen, educators, and writers. By publicly helping violators of the selective service laws, the group--including Hilary Putnam professor of Philosophy, Norman Mailer '43, Robert Lowell '37, Ashley Montagu, and Dr. Coffin--will be subject to arrest for "aiding and abetting...
Most psychologists have now abandoned the notion that intelligence can be accurately tested; it is difficult even to define the terms. Einstein once confessed to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu that in the Australian Aborigine's society, he would rightfully be regarded as an intellectual idiot who could neither track a wallaby nor throw a boomerang. As Anthropologist Stanley Garn has dryly noted, if the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. "It is possible that some of the behavioral differences between human groups may be genetically determined," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Ernst Goldschmidt...