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...Aside from the narrow point that his political myopia prevents him from distinguishing Marxists from anarchists from populists, I would like to remind Wilson of what he already knows: the first public attack on Sociobiology came from that noted Marxist economist, Paul Samuelson, who in his column in the rabid left periodical, Newsweek, called "Sociobiology just another example of "social Dar-winism." No, Prof. Wilson, it doesn't take a Weather-man to know which way the wind blows, especially when it is a blast of hot air. Richard C. Lewontin '50 Agassiz Professor of Zoology

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEAT ON WILSON | 2/3/1976 | See Source »

...Cambridge were a saner place, with half-logical traffic patterns, paved streets, and fewer rabid drivers, it could not support the scores of small junkyards it now hosts. But Cambridge is Cambridge, and the junkyards provide the best possible medicine for the victims of its driving maladies...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: A Cambridge Junkyard Junket | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...will tell you there's nothing he can do about it; it's the individual departments. But it even goes beyond the individual department level--the root of the problem is the individuals within the departments, the ones who are really making the decisions. Few of them are rabid sexists, almost all of them will go through the motions of complying with the affirmative action regulations, and some of them may even say that in principle, affirmative action is a good thing. But somehow the ideology behind affirmative action hasn't really sunk in. Situations like this crop up: There...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: What's Wrong With Me? | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...group came up with a hit single, Every Beat of My Heart, but it was not until 1966 that they landed a Motown recording deal. With almost all the top black songwriting and performing talent under contract, Motown encouraged rabid in-house competition. To keep its producers busy, all Motown's artists often recorded the same songs, knowing that only one version would be released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One of the Boys | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...Bright dropped out of school at 17. Ever since, he has been making mazes with paper, books and furniture and, on one project, known as the Pilton maze, he created a mile-long serpentine of ditches in a muddy meadow, most of which he dug himself, working "like a rabid mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bright, the Maze Man | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

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