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...three primitive societies from Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture: 1) the Pueblo Indians are peaceable and cooperative, with little violent emotion; 2) the Dobu Islanders in the Pacific are suspicious, jealous of women and property; they spend their lives trying to get something for nothing by magic, theft or fraud; 3) the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest are highly competitive, but their rivalry consists in conspicuous consumption: burning up their blankets and even their houses to show off. Riesman asks the class which type the U.S. most resembles. Some say the Dobuan and some the Kwakiutl; almost...
...Judgments & Prophecies [Aug. 30], Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt recommends negotiating with the Communists. The Communists have already "negotiated" themselves into control of a large part of Europe and Asia . . . The means employed by them thus far ... are murder, imprisonment, theft (whole countries) and lying propaganda. How do you negotiate with such people? By appeasement, of course, the only way acceptable to them ... It were better that the whole world should be destroyed rather than that Communism should triumph...
...obvious feeling, the Pittsburgh Teachers Association issued a report on the state of student discipline, charged that there is much too much coddling of pupils and catering to parents. Among the association's specific grievances: 66 teachers said that they had been struck by pupils; 170 reported the theft of personal property; 92 complained that parents had threatened them; 268 said that pupils sent to the principal's office had flatly refused...
Miss Lascey's threat to bring in outside detectives was made after repeated warnings failed to stop a rash of theft in Eliot. It will not apply to the other Cliffe dormitories...
fined $50 for attempted theft, Allan Hayes, 69, angrily explained why he had assaulted a pay telephone with a hack saw, cold chisel and hammer: "I wanted my nickel back. I did what anyone would...