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Although Ethnologist Lowie writes for plain readers, avoids the technicalities of advanced ethnology, laymen are likely to find his conclusions too cautious, may be irritated by the qualifications and exceptions he notes to the general patterns of Crow behavior. That even primitive society was complex, dense, marked with restrictions and taboos, is plain from The Crow Indians, and readers who follow Ethnologist Lowie's account of his difficulties with native language and customs are likely to be made permanently skeptical of most popular accounts of life among the Indians. Where more superficial observers, for example, might be content...
Regularly every Christmas-New Year week, at a time when school holidays release scholars for a brief period, the American Association for the Advancement of Science conducts a complex circus of 17 rings labeled from Anthropology to Zoology. Just as regularly at the end of each school year, at a time when scholars head for vacations. A.A.A.S. corrals as many as possible for a summer meeting. Then, however, A.A.A.S. wisely avoids a single big show, is content with one modest meeting somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains, another modest meeting somewhere along the Pacific Coast. Last week the Pacific division...
...lace industry was the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island, where 41% of the industry is now located. He it was who wrote into the Tariff Act of 1909 a 70% ad valorem duty on. imported lace. Because the U. S. could not easily build the amazingly complex lace-making machines that British manufacturers had been making for a century, the famed Rhode Island protectionist thoughtfully included a provision that machines might be imported duty free for a period of 18 months. Hundreds of machines were hastily installed. Because U. S. labor could not run the machines...
...cinema regards itself as a realistic medium. Consequently, producers feel obliged when introducing music to make it, not an integral item in their story, but part of a story within a story which can then be relegated to the less realistic medium of the theatre. In operatic cinema, this complex convention applies even more strongly, since it confers the additional advantage of making it unnecessary to compose a lot of new music. Love Me Forever is therefore both an original story and a sort of sugar-coated version, once removed, of La Boheme, in which Miss Moore, as Mimi, finally...
Deep Dark River begins when Mary Winston, well-born Southern lady, only woman lawyer in Clarksville, Miss., accepts a routine case growing out of a shyster lawyer's theft of a Negro client's cow, is quickly involved in a complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose...