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...development of the opposing views of biological and cultural determinism during the last half of the 19th century and up until 1925 when Mead went to Samoa to do her research. He describes the immense influence of Francis Galton, the late-19th century advocate of eugenics and a staunch believer that heredity is all a man brings with him into the world, that all is already determined at birth. It was against this school of thought, Freeman explains, that the anthropologist Franz Boas and others reacted around the turn of the century when they advanced the doctrine of cultural determinism...
...said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop off my head?" At one rally in a Democratic neighborhood last week, formerly staunch Democrats serenaded Epton with a campaign song to the tune of Bye Bye Blackbird...
...abortion tapdance consists of a lot of passionate rhetoric and a voting record that doesn't match. Heckler has been a staunch right-to-lifer since the year one, so much so that Sen. Bob Packwood (R.-Ore) became one of the only three senators to vote against Heckler during her confirmation hearings for her new federal post. When Packwood, who supports abortion, asked her at the hearings whether she believed Congress ought to use legislation to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it. Heckler engaged in some top-notch hedging. "The reason I am so bothered." Packwood said...
...about the talks. Some oilmen in Britain, however, believe the U.K. might reach a tacit understanding with OPEC to avoid a price war. Further price cuts could, after all, drain revenues from the sagging British economy. But any agreement to limit production would go against Thatcher's staunch free-market philosophy, and would also violate contracts that give private companies, including British Petroleum and Royal Dutch/Shell, the right to pump North Sea crude...
...Lyudmila, for instance, who was the guiding force behind the 1981 celebrations of the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian state. Halfway through the anniversary year, however, Lyudmila died at age 38 of a brain hemorrhage. Since her death, no one else has emerged as a staunch crusader for Bulgarian nationalism...