Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuesday, the Faculty can begin to set in motion this process, if only by expressing its intent to take the substantive actions needed to do so. This in itself would be a significant step toward the comprehensive and careful self-examination which, as last April indicated, has been long overdue at this university...
...amendments offered by the Coop shift virtually all decision-making power from the stockholders, who are self-appointed to the directors, who would more than ever represent the membership. The directors instead of the "trustee" stockholders would set the rebate rate, for example. While continuing to hold the 60.000 shares of Coop stock in trust, the stockholders will become no more than a nominating board for the directors...
...commission-a mixed bag of Congressmen, lawyers, educators, psychiatrists and sociologists-was established last year. Its report recommends self-policing by the networks and suggests guidelines. These include a reduction in programs that contain violence; elimination of violence from children's programs; and adoption of the British practice of scheduling crime and adventure stories in the evening after children...
Eugene Marais was an Afrikaner best remembered by his countrymen as one of their early poets, but he was also a journalist, self-taught naturalist and morphine addict. Such fame as he enjoyed outside Africa came mainly from the scandal caused when famous Belgian Writer Maurice Maeterlinck stole a lengthy excerpt of Marais's Afrikaans text. The Soul of the White Ant, and published it under his own name. Marais shot himself in 1936. Shortly after, his complete study of white ants, i.e., termites, and a slim, chatty book of reminiscences about baboons were published in Europe. Marais...
...Self-Educated Naturalist. Marais's reputation is likely to suffer from the publication. After 54 pages of overheated, condescending preface, Robert Ardrey bumps to a comic conclusion: "Had Marais been enabled to finish his manuscript, polish the rough parts, rethink a few conclusions, add further ideas that had come to him, then beyond all question he would have left us more than we shall find in the following pages." Too true. There is a provocative chapter on the sex life of baboons, whose customs find some resonances in human behavior. Baboons also become addicted to intoxicants, it appears...