Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, been president of the American Anthropological Society, and editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. But he is not the dull academic he claims to be. His book, Mankind So Far, which deals with such a complex topic as human evolution, is so lucid and light that it has sold over 20,000 copies. This sale is a incase for a scientific none that Doubleday was also happy to snap up his two subsequent books, The Heathen, a study of primitive religious, and Back of History, the history of humans, published this year...
Last year's lecture series was given by Sir Herbert Read on the general topic "Art and the Development of Human Consciousness." Other recent lecturers have included Aaron Copland, Thornton Wilder, and E. E. Cummings...
Because of the decision to omit the lectureship, next year's general field will be in literature. The plan of rotation for lecturers calls for a literature topic every other year, with fine arts and music alternating in the years between...
...audacious ploy, one best used by stay-at-homes of an intellectual appearance, is to abandon all pretense about having been to Europe and, indeed, to disclaim all knowledge of and interest in The Continent. The professional Inpatriate will wear a look of complete boredom while Europe is the topic, being careful, of course, not to let his expression be accurately interpreted as one of ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question such as, "Has England got rid of that awful Chamberlain...
...While the farm price-support issue is still a pregnant national topic for debate, there is little chance of a big shift away from the Republican Party in the farm districts. But the farm situation will have some local effects. Example: Missouri's Fourth District, which lies half in suburban Kansas City and half in adjoining farm country. There, Republican Incumbent Jeffrey P. Hillelson's troubles are caused more by the elements than by the Eisenhower farm program. The district has been hard hit by drought, and in the Fourth District of Missouri, the incumbent Congressman...