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...quoted in TIME as part of the general wave of enthusiasm for sociobiology, but the quotes came from a discussion in which I also criticized and even ridiculed the new subfield. Its thought-provoking notions about behavior include some that are true, few that are novel, many that are trivial, and none that can substitute for the complex, laborious, difficult progress of the rest of behavioral and social science. Why do people always like it easy...
Shame on you for your Essay on discrimination [July 25]! Using such trivial examples to deal with a most important issue: equal rights. I suspect that the editors of TIME are simply uncomfortable with social changes already accomplished -especially those that are a result of affirmative action programs and the push for women's rights and gay rights...
...Living, Home and Weekend has stretched the news-gathering staff, for all its size, somewhat thin. Others note that the sections themselves are rather thin, and that Editors Annette Grant of Living, Nancy Newhouse of Home and Marvin Siegel of Weekend are reaching rather desperately for ever more trivial articles to fill them (last week's Living devoted an entire page to dill pickles). Still, one close reader agrees that the paper is not going soft. "People who run down the Times ought to have to compete with it every day," says Michael O'Neill, editor of the excellent rival...
...would insist, politicians would cheat and lie and always get away with it; government snoopery and police brutality would go undetected and unchecked; products would never be shown up for being less than advertised; wretched conditions, unreported and uncorrected, might bring on civic disorder-in a thousand ways, both trivial and important, the world would be a different place. Warming to his case, a reporter might take his stand with Bertrand Russell, who said that it was no more the duty of a philosopher than of an accountant to return a favorable balance sheet on mankind...
...outside observer it was clear that Dean Arthurs did obstruct the progress of several proposals by digressing to discuss trivial matters. We can only hope that this was unintentional...