Word: eiseley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loren Eiseley, LL.D., anthropologist. Matina S. Homer, LL.D., educator. [Her research] has fostered a growing new awareness that the motivation and achievement of intellectually gifted women can be affected, favorably or adversely, by the social setting...
BEFORE I LEFT her apartment on Saturday, Mrs. Emmett read me an article from the Sunday Times written by Loren Eiseley. ("He's one of the only modern writers I like," she said. "The others are so full of examining their feelings and describing their inner thoughts--I don't think such introspection gets you anywhere.") In the article, Eiseley discussed the glacial epoch in relation to man's fear of nature, described our current world situation as the depths of winter, and deplored the "heedless ones" who want "liberation without responsibility" (here Mrs. Emmett looked over the clipping...
...Loren Eiseley, Sc.D., anthropologist...
...Eiseley has met strange creatures in the night country, and he tells marvelous stories about them. He tells of a farmer who has a monster living in the well beneath his house, and a novelist who offered a toast to the triumph of mankind, unaware that he was being observed by a bemused rat. He tells of an old rancher who shocked his family by keeping the skeleton of his sister, murdered by Apaches, in the china closet. And of the lonely bachelor who had found and fallen in love with what he believed to be a petrified woman...
...Eiseley, storytelling is never pure entertainment. The autobiographical tales keep illustrating the theses that wind through all his writing-the fallibility of science, the mystery of evolution, the surprise of life. Thus dramatized, such concepts seem not preachy but triumphantly self-evident...