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Last fall his unorthodox position became well-known when he and two other professors. Stephen J. Gould and S. Allen Counter Jr., taught Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism." The course was modeled as closely as possible on the uniform-grade system that Lewontin has used in his other course. Biology 152, "Population Genetics," with a few concessions to those students who, Lewontin says, "through no fault of their own--for reasons of med school or law school-have...
...dispute in particular," said M. Dupin in The Purioined Letter, "the reason educed by mathematical study." Thinkers naturally espouse their own talents, ignoring or even evading the unfamiliar, the unorthodox and the unknown. Dupin excelled at a peculiarly unsystematic form of detective work--hence his own aversion to the mathematical. Historians, the most sleuth-like of social scientists, held off the mathematical tide longer than scholars in many fields, although few historians today question the importance of the heavily statistical works of history produced in the last few decades...
...good university will seek and may in some significant measure attain these ends. But it will never let these values, important as they are, override its central purpose. We value freedom of expression precisely because it provides a forum for the new, the provocative, the disturbing, and the unorthodox. Free speech is a barrier to the tyranny of authoritarian or even majority opinion as the rightness or wrongness of particular doctrines or thoughts...
...happens, the mildly optimistic conventional forecast is getting some support from an unconventional quarter: the ever inventive and unorthodox breed of Wall Street analysts known collectively as "technicians." Uninterested in such mundane matters as interest rates, profits and price/earnings ratios, the technicians try to divine the future by studying patterns that have seemed to shape trading in the past. The technician, says one of the leading practitioners of the art, Edson Gould of Anametrics, Inc., approaches each new year like "a lion tamer who must anticipate the moves the animal will make." The 1975 moves, as forecast by some...
Illegal broadcasting by homemade transmitters has become a persistent and growing youth cult in the Soviet Union. After samizdat (clandestine publishing of dissident writings) and magnitizdat (circulating tapes of unorthodox poetry and music), there is now radioiz-dat-air-it-yourself programs of pop music, teen-age talk, messages to girl friends and even dirty jokes. All of which represents a somewhat refreshing contrast to official state-controlled broadcasting, which is apt to be long on lectures about beet growing and the life of Lenin, but short on entertainment...