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These and other claims by proponents of sociobiology have made it one of the most inflammatory doctrines ta emerge from the campuses in decades. Since 1975, when Harvard Zoologist Edward Wilson's mammoth 700-page book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis brought the new science to public attention, the controversy has spread beyond Harvard?where it originated?dividing faculty departments and disrupting academic conventions. Angry opponents denounce "soso biology" as reactionary political doctrine disguised as science. Their fear: it may be used to show that some races are inferior, that male dominance over women is natural and that social progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Do What You Do | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...repression spawned the ETA (Euz-kadi ta Azkatusuna?Basque Homeland and Liberty) a separatist resistance organization, which among other acts of violence killed Franco's first Premier, Adm>al Luis Carrerro Blanco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: VOTERS SAY 'S | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...spread of Soviet influence on the Horn so distresses Arab leaders that four of them recently convened an extraordinary summit at Ta'iz, in the Yemen Arab Republic. The four included Numeiry and Somalia's Red-lining President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Marxist President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the leader of the Yemen Arab Republic. They set aside differing political views long enough to agree on a pan-Arabic, pro-Moslem program against Ethiopia. Meanwhile neighboring Saudi Arabia, which has been pushing aid to Somalia in hopes of wooing it away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Playing the Horn, Moscow Style | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...extremes. There were also suffragettes and soldiers, flappers and footmen, love and death. It was grand soap opera, of course, but it sandblasted as often as it bubbled. It gave up more vivid characters, through plotted deaths and departures, than most TV series ever introduce. To all concerned, Ta. Paul Gray

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goodbye to All That | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...feelin'. Boogie takes the question marks outa yer eyes, puts little exclamation marks in they place. Are ya on my beam? Boogie's when the rest of the world is lookin' you straight in the eye sayin' you'll never be able ta make it and ya got your teeth in a jar and those teeth say, 'Yes I can, yes I can.' [At this point Sister Boogie Woman puffs with exertion.] 'Yes I can. Yes I can.' I say think of yourself as a potato chip and life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

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