Word: vogt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vogt is a specialist in the effect of Western influences on American Indian cultures in the United States. He has also served as co-ordinator of the "Comparative Study of Values in Five Cultures," a program in which a team of University scientists has analyzed Indian, Spanish-American, and English-speaking communities in the Southwest...
...researchers, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, and Evon Z. Vogt, assistant professor of Social Anthropology, reported their findings in "Navaho Means People," just published by the University Press...
...Navaho case," Kluckhohn and Vogt believe, "is not unlike many of the problems in Southeast Asia or Africa." The most important thing to be learned from it "is that technical assistance and economic help are not enough." What is needed, they say, is an approach "which sees the problems in their full social and cultural complexity...
...McGAULEY, VOGT the HALEY-a want?" snapped the Sage SHAPLEY. "You are FOLEY GALLO...
...then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirming what ordinary people have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...