Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the tremendous impact of anthropology on modern thought it is perhaps surprising that such a systematic investigation has been so long delayed. For decades field workers have returned to civilization to tell us that primitive thought is as much a cultural artifact as potsherds, farming methods, and sex taboos. So too the historians have devoted volumes to demonstrating that the intellectual interests and methods of our ancestors reflected their natural and social environment. Applying all this to our own society, we have studied the mentality of the juvenile delinquent, the compulsive neurotic, and the migrant worker to show that...
...academic subculture does influence academic thought, then it also influences the intellectual climate of our time. In a world which turns ever more often to specialists for official visions of reality, it is of paramount importance to know who these specialists are, and how their special experience may limit their vision of life...
...chill statistics on unemployment rose in Detroit, the United Auto Workers' Boss Walter P. Reuther, 51, shivered at the thought of being seen or photographed at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council's traditional week-long session in a palm-fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders of the U.S. labor movement, more than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section...
...might, the newsmen could expect only rudeness or a quarterdeck tongue-lashing when they got close. The duke has been especially testy about the swarms of Indian photographers. At New Delhi he asked irritably, "Who are all these people?", and turned to Prime Minister Nehru to remark cuttingly: "I thought there was a film shortage in your country." At the Taj Mahal, begged for one more picture, Prince Philip consented but snapped: "Get on with your business and stop talking...
...conclusion that some sort of particle emission, or wave emission, from the Sun was responsible for the variations of the satellites. This would mean, he said, that the density of the upper reaches of the atmosphere was increased during periods of high solar activity. Not only had it been thought that the upper atmosphere was ten times less dense than the satellites proved it to be, but it was never suspected that the density varied with radiation. An IGY publication pointed out that these discoveries "will have a farreaching effect on interplanetary travel." They certainly will be important...