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Since its publication last fall, Carleton Coon's Origin of Races has been the subject of bitter, continuous attack. His critics have called him a racist, hinted that he was probably a Nazi, and have denounced his work as a return to obsolete, misleading anthropological techniques...
Sudan's anti-Christian campaign is a product of history and geography, as well as of Islam's militant spread across modern Africa. The 8,000,000 Sudanese of the sandy north are Arabic and Nubian in origin, and Moslem to a man. Most of the 4,000,000 inhabitants of the swampy and forest-covered south are black Africans, who know that in the days before British rule Arab traders sold their ancestors into slavery and have long sought some measure of local autonomy from Dictator Ibrahim Abboud's all-Moslem government. Since Independence...
...about in jagged fragments-precisely the imprecise arrangement of an explosion. The author gets away with this, which suggests the quality of his skill. Humes is now at work on a play, two movies, and a scientific treatise in which he hopes to explain, among many other things, the origin of hailstorms and the nature of magnetism...
Protestant Powerlessness. In Escape from Freedom (1941), his best-known book, Fromm traces the origin of this pathetic middle-class creature to Martin Luther. Putting Luther on the couch, Fromm concludes that Luther plunged modern man into despair. In a neat, if oversimplified analysis, Fromm argues that this Protestant feeling of "powerlessness" paved the way for the acceptance of Hitler. In May Man Prevail?, Fromm continues his war against the middle class with considerably less plausibility. He blames the cold war on the paranoiac attitude of the American middle class (though reserving a few knocks for Russia too), and then...
...that a virus causes the cancer may be an oversimplification. The tubercle bacillus is the one essential factor in tuberculosis, but mil lions of people carry the bacillus without ever developing the disease. By analogy, researchers argue, it may be that viruses, or viruslike particles of whatever origin, are essential factors in human as well as in animal cancers. But it takes something else as well to bring on the disease, even though the virus particles may have been harbored for half a lifetime...