Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Savage Paradise by Hugo van Lawick (Morrow; 272 pages; $29.95) is a predator's portrait gallery, set on the golden plains of Tanzania's Serengeti. Having spent some 16 years observing and photographing wild animals in Africa, Van Lawick has a scientist's understanding of beastly behavior and a raconteur's way with anecdotes. But his long suit is photography: studies of sociable lions coping with the problems of love life and day care, graceful leopards stalking their prey, packs of hyenas engaging in gang warfare, and endearing cheetah families at play-all unique glimpses...
...evident in the kind of restless discontent that appeared in the off-year elections, not only in the cautious and sometimes contradictory voting but also in the low numbers of votes cast. "There is a mood of apprehension and anxiety, a fear of the unknown," says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti. Boston Globe Columnist Jeremiah V. Murphy summed it up neatly when he wrote, "We should feel better than we actually do. But nobody knows...
Both observation and involvement came naturally to Margaret Mead, who was born in 1901 in Philadelphia to parents who quite literally raised her to be a social scientist. She was only eight when she was assigned to observe and record her younger sisters' speech patterns. Mead's university training-she studied at New York's Barnard College and Columbia University under such anthropology giants as Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict-only refined her talents...
When the time to go did come, though, Margaret Mead was ready. When she learned last year that she had a generally fatal form of cancer, she refused to let it slow her down. Instead, the scientist who had spent a lifetime observing others turned her still keen powers of observation on herself, and continued to keep her thorough records on her own process of aging. Her attention was appropriate. Of all the people she studied, few were as interesting as Margaret Mead herself...
Plomer once compared himself to "a craftsman, a scholar, an engineer, or a scientist" in the quest for proper literary form; but he was entertaining in whatever medium he chose. Convinced that pleasure was an essential component of literary criticism, Plomer preferred the engaging voice of a raconteur to the severe objectivity of a scholar. "Why should we be hardened?" he wondered. "Who wants to be a fossil?" This generosity of spirit made him a popular figure on BBC radio and television, which he mastered despite his professed aversion for modern technology...