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...author chosen to give this attack on authority a look of authority was Yuri Zhdanov, a biologist and son of the late Andrei A. Zhdanov, member of the all-powerful Politburo. In his plea for intellectual unorthodoxy he quoted texts by the leading authoritarians of Communism, Premier Joseph Stalin and China's Mao Tse-tung. Obviously, the scientific "line" is still in the same strong hands...
French Scholar Andre Morize (Learn not "to talk with your hand in front of your mouth: it does not help!"), Historian David Owen ("Don't let yourselves become pedantic and pompous"), Biologist William H. Weston ("Never . . . feel an envious resentment toward [a student] if ... he shows promise of surpassing you"). Well up front, the Handbook offers a general caution or two about the whole profession. Writes famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, after eleven years as a teacher at Harvard: "It's a daunting business being a professor . . . You will have, if you join this curious trade, to walk...
Inverse Commuters. The aroused Audubon Society, a dangerous adversary, considered the English sparrow Bird Enemy No. 1, outranking the feral cat and the small boy with an air rifle. Pamphlets blackened the sparrow's name. Said Biologist Ned Dearborn of the U.S. Biological Survey: "The English sparrow among birds, like the rat among mammals, is cunning, destructive and filthy...
...Standen, all the other sciences are guilty of the same limitation - and laymen should never forget it. The biologists, trying desperately to be "scientific," spend a good deal of time trying to define their terms. The results, says Standen, are "ludicrous." They dare not even try to define "life." They define " 'stimulus' and 'response' ... in terms of one another. No biologist can define a species. And as for a genus - all attempts come down to this: 'A genus is a grouping of species that some recognized taxonomic specialist has called a genus...
...wrote and found that four of the perpetual subscribers had been willed their subscriptions. A former Yale biologist philosophized: "No matter how broke I get I will always have something to will." Another said, "I regard it as the best investment I ever made"-a sentiment echoed by many. A U.S. Army intelligence officer wrote: "When I subscribed, I figured this is a new slant on the news-this will succeed." A social science teacher, who used TIME in her classes, explained: "After I married and became a homemaker I needed TIME more than ever to keep me in touch...