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...Mead is not considered beyond criticism by her colleagues. Younger anthropologists sometimes dismiss her broad field inquiries as no more substantial than "a wind blowing through the palm trees." Other Pacific investigators have produced evidence that runs counter to her assessments of tribal personality. Most of all, anthropologists stand aghast at the way her powerful mind sometimes links fact and implication with little more than pure faith. One of her sternest critics, Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris, says dryly: "The courage of one's convictions is a blessing with which Mead has been liberally endowed." She permits few ripostes. When...
With the reduction in shift hours and the demands of better care, the ratio of hospital personnel to patients has soared from about 145 employees per 100 patients to 260 per 100 in the past 20 years. With mounting labor costs, up go hospital room rates. Hospital administrators stand aghast at this; yet in all too many ways it is their own fault. Dr. Leona Baumgartner, a former health commissioner of New York City who is now at Harvard, can cite chapter and verse to show how hospitals have consistently lagged behind reality and then reacted in a "Who?...
...final work of consequence was Holst's masterpiece for large wind band, Hammersmith. Holst was a chaste, humble man of quiet, massive integrity and gentleness. His conscience burned aghast at the stupidity of conflict while at the same time luxuriated in stout goodwill. While most comfortable in small forms, Holst also created large works such as the Hymn to Jesus, the opera Savitri, the cinematic Planets, and the sombre tone poem Egdon Heath. The Ensemble was less successful with this work, but the excellence of the brass choir, which played with solar brightness, was the best I have heard...
...Your article, "NATO: In the Wake of Illusion" [Nov. 22], was interesting. Americans are aghast when the Soviet Union issues the Brezhnev Doctrine. Why? The U.S., in 1823, announced to the world the Monroe Doctrine to support our own intervention, imperialism, and hands-off policy in this hemisphere. The Russians are simply learning from their equally ambitious counterpart how to deal with troublesome neighbors...
...calling attention to racial strife in the U.S., the demonstration was undeniably effective. But it was also painfully petty. East Germans, Russians, even Cubans, all stand at attention when The Star-Spangled Banner or any other national anthem is played. Other equally militant U.S. black athletes were aghast at Smith and Carlos' actions. "I came here to win a gold medal-not to talk about black power," said Ohio's Willie Davenport next day after winning the 110-meter high hurdles. He stood straight and tall and proud on the Olympic pedestal...