Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though nature endows most people with sexual organs that are distinctly male or female, every so often it errs. On rare occasions, a child is born with ambiguous genitalia. In some cases, babies who look outwardly female also have rudimentary male organs-or have testes within their ovaries (a growth that frequently becomes cancerous). Other infants, at first appearing to be male, have small testes, are sterile, and later develop breasts and grow no facial hair...
...available resources which encourages ever greater intensification of production. Inevitably, as ecologists like Barry Commoner have warned loudly for the last decade, this leads to depletion of the environment. For a culture to survive, it must then evolve technologically and begin all over again. As a rule it is rare to encounter blatantly obvious "logic" such as his declaration that "similar variable under similar conditions tend to give rise to similar consequences." Indeed Harris while avowedly a cultural determinist covers himself from sniper-fire with this gray-handkerchief-waving...
Harris' intention, to debunk the old Victorian "onwards and upwards" view of cultural evolution, is admirable, though hardly rare today. But the book fizzles to a rather banal conclusion--"In life, as in any game whose outcome depends on both luck and skill, the rational response to bad odds is to try harder." For the news that our culture is by no means the first one to face a crisis threatening its whole survival may console those who are comforted in adversity by company (though the companions in this instance are all dead) but otherwise there seem...
...BAKER, PUBLICIST for California's Berserkley Records, called me yesterday to let me know that next week's Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers concert at the Paradise will be sold out if a lot of people buy tickets. This is one of those rare occasions on which I actually recommend that you go to a concert: Jonathan Richman is really good, really weird, and he puts on a great snow; most other artists these days, like Queen, Kiss, Heart, and Kidney, are all done with mirrors. Or holograms...
Tamara Mitchell--Kirkland JCR at 8:30. New England Conservatory Medium Rare Big Band--Jordan Hall at 8:00. Eric Rosenblith and David Hagan--Kresge Auditorium at 8:00 MIT Choral Society--Sacred Heart Church, 47 Sixth Street, East Cambridge...