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Unable to form connections with street people, Travis's attentions turn to Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign worker for Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris). This, Scorsese implies, is the other, the dominant stratum of society. Betsy is confident, manipulative, and vapid--like the low-lifers, she registers no emotions, but unlike...
From its humble beginning, when it was all white and inscribed only with the stenciled name of its owner, the T shirt has evolved and proliferated at a bewildering rate. Last week that evolution reached its highest stage yet with the introduction of Body Language, a collection that speaks for...
This statement attempts to tie Wilson's argument to that of Robert Ardrey, who is extensively and appropriately criticized in the two cited works. (Montagu is actually the editor, not the writer, of Man and Aggression.) In fact the only thing Wilson and Ardrey have in common is that both...
Hunting and the female role: Contrary to the claims of Wilson's critics, anthropologists are in overwhelming agreement that hunting has been an important human subsistance strategy for at least two million years. There is also no doubt that child care has been primarily a female activity. Among all known...
Alland's Rebuttal: Perhaps the authors of the N.Y. Review letter have not read Alexander Alland's book, The Human Imperative, any more closely than they have Wilson's. Although more speculative than Sociobiology, it tends to support the same view of man. For example, Alland states, "Thus there is...