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One's first reaction to all these amazing claims is to wonder how, if Fell's theories are correct, the entire American archeological profession could have missed the boat. How can a marine biologist know so much more than archeologists and anthropologists who have devoted their lives to the study...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

In 1929 he moved to Santiago to attend the Teachers Institute and begin a career as a French professor. The academic career never flourished, but his poetry did. He and fellow poets in Santiago lived the lifestyle traditionally associated with their profession: dressed in black, they often went hungry and...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: The Song Was Not in Vain | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Inflation accounting has been used successfully in Brazil, where inflation rates have been hovering around 40%. Holland's huge Philips Co. has been using replacement-cost accounting for more than 15 years. Shell Oil Co. offered its 1974 results in both "historical dollars" and "current dollars" adjusted for purchasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACCOUNTING: Balance-Sheet Battle | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

There it was, in a nutshell. Granted, not every art historian has been as nobly certain of the natural order as that unruffled Italian phallocrat; yet the fact remains that until quite recently, the work of women artists did not have a history. For several hundred years, women who painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Rediscovered--Women Painters | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Elwyn Brooks White was the son of a carpenter, and there are times when the father's profession marks his son's tongue-and-groove sentences. Hardly a word is ever out of place; his postcards can no more be excerpted than his essays. As these letters reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tongue and Groove | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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