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...NIGHT COUNTRY, REFLECTIONS OF A BONE HUNTING MAN by Loren Eiseley. 240 pages. Scribners...
...quite sure who Loren Eiseley is? One of those philosophizing scientists-isn't he?-constantly being praised for his literary graces? A figure on TV panel discussions, a professor somewhere or other, repeatedly granting interviews on the meaning of life and the future of mankind...
There is indeed something solemnly institutional about Eiseley, the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science and Curator of Early Man at the University of Pennsylvania. Perhaps only someone with such an array of titles would drift into such rhetoric as "the frail confines of the human heart," and then, on the same page, "the windswept uplands of the human mind...
This year for the first time, the Radcliffe PBK chapter participated in the Harvard exercises. The Poet was Janies Dickey, poet in residence at the University of South Carolina. The Orator was Loren Eiseley, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Eiseley read a selection from a forthcoming book in which he describes walking through a winternight and musing about man's origin and future...
HOPE COLLEGE Loren Eiseley, L.H.D., anthropologist...