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...Commentary he is more straightforward. On race: "We do not know why blacks bunch toward the lower end of the social scale, or, for that matter, why Jews bunch toward the top." But even acknowledging the complications of "nongenetic" factors, Herrnstein "calls attention" to the "genetic spine running through the social class continuum, giving it a rigidity that few social theorists, let alone ordinary laymen, recognize...
...knew of Lisa's radical activities and so Naval intelligence and FBI men at the I-labs were especially concerned about her. While working at the I-labs. Lisa took part in the 1969 November Action, an antiwar demonstration at MIT. She received a slashed eye, cracked spine and all the other radical medals of honor for her activities. After the November Action, Lisa was carefully "watched". "It was like a siege or an armed camp," Lisa said...
...visits to the Southwest and the Mexican desert gradually became the spine of Castaneda's life. Impressed by his work, the U.C.L.A. staff offered him encouragement. Recalls Professor Meighan: "Carlos was the type of student a teacher waits for." Sociology Professor Harold Garfinkel, one of the fathers of ethnomethodology, gave Castaneda constant stimulus and harsh criticism. After his first peyote experience (August 1961), Castaneda presented Garfinkel with a long "analysis" of his visions. "Garfinkel said, 'Don't explain to me. You are a nobody. Just give it to me straight and in detail, the way it happened. The richness...
Even the opportunities for such standard tropical pursuits as swimming and sunning are limited. Both Kyona and Ibo beaches-the only ones anywhere near the capital city-have limited facilities. In addition, they are a spine-snapping one-hour trip from Port-au-Prince over roads that are hopelessly rutted and potholed. In fact, Haiti's poor roads virtually confine all but the hardiest tourists to the capital city and its environs...
...vacation was, however, a good news-bad news situation for Papagianis. Two days after learning of his All-America selection he underwent an operation in Cambridge City Hospital to remove a cyst on the base of his spine. The All-American thing kind of makes the operation worthwhile though," he said...