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Margaret Mead has been a powerful catalyst in making anthropology relevant to contemporary man-and now, obviously, is no time to quit. "At this moment in history," she says, "we have virtually the whole of man's life spread out before us-people who are living as they may have lived for the past 30,000 years and astronauts who are beginning to live as we will live tomorrow. On my first field trips I worked with the comforting knowledge that everything I reported was unique, vanishing, and would be useful for anthropology. Today those people and I live...
...stifling environment that man is creating for himself can be halted and the trend reversed, Udall argues. However, the task involves an unprecedented degree of communication and cooperation among communities, cities, states and national governments, as well as corporations and foundations. Overview hopes to be the catalyst. Its undertakings could range from locating a factory in a rural area so that it would enhance rather than despoil the environment, to designing whole new cities and sanitizing polluted international waterways...
...Guardian (Manchester/London) -Catalyst to the nonconformist British conscience and representative of the most informed and intelligent sector of British progressive, liberal thought. Not a newspaper to which readers react neutrally, it has de-emphasized news in favor of criticism, interpretation and political polemic...
Astonishingly enough, several days ago and little more than a week after his action, Atkins addressed the Massachusetts Conference of Social Welfare, saying, "Communities must set up their own self-policing organizations" because "the policeman has become the major irritant and the major catalyst for riots...
CHRISTMAS is part of the flow. It's the catalyst that picks us up and dumps us into the next state of existence, winter. It's the ceremonial rite of staying-indoorsness...