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...does anthropology deal with predictable data because man is an essentially is an unpredictable organism. Finally, anthropology isn't objective. It involves an observer interacting directly with other humans. Try as the anthropologist might to analyze and objectify what he sees, some amount of subjectivity is bound to seep into his work...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Mead: A Humanist's Legacy | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...administration proceeds and the Georgia accents gradually seep past amazement into the everyday, Dixie's interment may occur almost unnoticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is It True What They Say? | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...method of outguessing the competition in order to make bids for oil leases as low as possible, yet still win them. The Canadian suit named Arne R. Nielsen, president of Mobil Oil Canada, who was well versed in highly classified and arcane Mobil technology, including its airborne radar propane seep detector and computer graphics modeling system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Superior Seduction | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...that seemed as loud as a mortar barrage, "troopies" (soldiers) and their birds were rocking to a song about the country's bad news. It appeared, in fact, that the blues had become an informal national anthem. As gloomy figures on war casualties and economic decline continued to seep in, record numbers of white Rhodesians were moving out. The latest mission to Salisbury by an Anglo-American negotiating team was called a failure by the Rhodesian government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Ian Smith's Last Stand? | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Only in a place like Cambridge can a theater keep bringing back a film like Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The Hollywood sharpies who financed it nearly walked out on the rushes. They should have let it all seep in instead, because one doesn't throw words around in calling this movie "haunting." The look and feel of a real old West mining town are both perfect, from Warren Beaty's cowardly lion of a gunslinger to the orientals segregated across the tracks. And if you don't understand why it moves so lethargically in spots--many...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Film | 8/13/1976 | See Source »

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