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Sheldon, the main academic advocate of somatotyping, grew up in rural Rhode Island. His father, a naturalist, judged county animal fairs and taught Sheldon how to classify living things, says Ellery Lanier, a former protege...
...Sheldon said women at Ivy League colleges should have lots of children since they were such skilled people they could use their skills to improve their children and the general human race," says Lanier, the former close associate of Sheldon...
...Lanier dismisses the controversy surrounding Sheldon and his somatotyping program and says critics are simply overreacting to the researcher's warped sense of humor...
...Sheldon had one irritating quality--a sarcastic sense of humor, which he thought was funny, but it would intimidate the stuffed shirts of the academic world," Lanier says...
...Lanier is in familiar territory: he is widely considered to be the father of virtual reality. Though his name is not yet common fare on the cocktail-party circuit of the cultural elite, he is a star of an astoundingly energized new movement of musicians and visual artists who are defining and redefining their work through the use of cybertechnology. ``The computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London...