Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contending that Mead interprets too freely, critics ignore the fact that anthropology can never be a science. Mead's conclusions can stand because anthropological interpretations are always theoretical. No experiments can prove them right or wrong, since observed systems and institutions can easily be distorted to fit any proposed paradigm. Nor 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...
While White reportedly confessed to the crimes, his motivation was not revealed. He apparently $9,600 salary. His wife Mary Ann had to quit her teaching job when she became pregnant. They later tried to operate a waterfront potato stand, but his city hall duties consumed too much of his time. He decided to resign the post on Nov. 10, then changed his mind and waged a vain fight to get the post back. Moscone had refused to reappoint...
...liner to translucent lip gloss, all supposed to make her appear as if she were wearing no makeup at all. Then, in the evening, she can switch to smoky mauve eye shadow and dark red lipstick touched with midnight blue, calculated to give her a mysterious aura that will stand out under disco lights and smite her dancing partners with an advanced case of Saturday Night Fever...
However rewarding, the work's not easy. "It's a long day," said a seventeen-year veteran. "It's a hard day." Sidewalk Santas have to stand for ten or twelve hours a day. Store Santas have their own problems. As Debbie Bennett of Western Temporaries put it, "The work is hard.... Children are apt to pull his beard or heckle him.... They might take a fit or wet on Santa." Many suffer and sweat inside the heavy suit and padding--the B. Altman's Santa lamented going through "numerous T-shirts" and stinking all the way home to Long...
Third-year man John Stubbs has a firm grip on the number three spot behind Havens. The former Milton Academy stand-out saw a lot of action last season at five and has moved up two rungs on the ladder this year due to the departure of seniors Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon...