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The people here have in William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader [Jan. 31], the personification of the kind of journalism that best mirrors their largely "Neanderthal" outlook. Loeb has no insight-he merely reflects the sad truth.
Liberals outside the state consider Loeb a laughable Neanderthal who invariably backs sure losers for office, but those in New Hampshire take him seriously and fear his front-page thrusts. They claim with some justification that his charges amount to smear tactics; indeed, many of his accusations later turn out...
Tomes for tots are still dominated by the Art Director Look. What small children love best is plenty of handsomely presented visual detail, so that they can pore over a book again and again. What they keep getting is sweeping, uncluttered spreads in yummy pastels, or Neanderthal collages depicting, say...
Chimp or Philosopher. Neanderthals conducted other elaborate rites besides funerals. Clues to one of these were uncovered in Lebanon last summer when an expedition led by Solecki, who is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, found the dismembered skeleton of a small deer in a cave overlooking the Mediterranean...
How did so sophisticated a creature acquire such an unwarranted reputation? For one thing, the first Neanderthal bones were dug just about the time that Darwin astonished the world with his announcement that man and ape were descended from a common ancestor. Neanderthal's apish image was further enforced...