Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. Wit and graceful prose make these speculations on the evolution of man engaging and at times provocative reading.
Sir: What has happened to the vaunted objectivity of scientists like Desmond Morris? According to your review, his book purporting to explain the development of man from apes [Jan. 26] raises two or more questions for each one it claims to answer.
THE NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. Wit and graceful prose make these speculations on the evolution of man an engaging and at times provocative reading experience.
WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. Using the techniques of psychological biography, the author draws a fascinating, sympathetic, and at times ironic, portrait of the 19th century English genius who excelled as a painter, poet, architect and interior designer.
In describing the development of man's sexual attitudes, Morris offers some ingenious observations. At some point in time, he says, the male of the species began to make his sexual approach from the front of the female instead of from the rear. As a result, the male was...