Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT is man? To this age-old question, the social sciences are now proposing some extraordinarily complicated new answers. First and foremost, man is an animal-but he is neither the end product of evolution nor much more than a mediocre biological success. The body he inhabits is primitive, at least 50,000 years out of date. Basically, he is one of the world's most aggressive beasts, who, the scientists say, fundamentally enjoys torturing and killing other animals, including his fellow man in the sport known...
...Dutch Council's decision presented a new ecclesiastical dilemma for Pope Paul. As last week's resolutions at Noordwijkerhout illustrated, it is an increasingly open question as to just how long he and the official church can tolerate the doctrinal rebelliousness of The Netherlands' feisty Catholics...
...anyone who knows that methadone itself is an addicting drug, the immediate and inevitable question is: Why is it being given to these real (but fictitiously named) drug addicts? Many reputable physicians have despaired of getting any substantial number of hard core heroin addicts to kick the habit even after long-term confinement and psychiatric treatment - 80% to 90% soon relapse. So the doctors have concluded that the best thing to do is to fight fire with fire...
Alexander Pope left his own question unanswered, but a second look at his heroic couplet suggests that the Age of Reason, of which Pope was the prime English poetic voice, was not as innocent of depth psychology as a post-Freudian age might complacently assume. Pope's sin (in modern usage, his neurosis or maladjustment) is explored with devoted detachment by Peter Quennell in the first of a promised two-volume work on the little cripple whose verses fixed a thousand human insects in Formalin...
Following is the CRIMSON's first annual athletic intelligence test. Score five points for each question you answer correctly. The more points you score, the happier you will be. Answers will appear next week...