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Thursday, January 24, 1974
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Mead Analytical in Autobiography
By LISA GROSS
Guest Reviewer
**BLACKBERRY WINTER** by Margaret Mead (296 pages). Touchstone paperback;
As most college students discover at some point during their academic careers, academia is in itself an art. In order to succeed in college, the student learns the academic system and the academic point of view. Some students even define reality as a nebulous entity bounding the land mass which academics use, but in which it never nails root.
On the other side, however, are the people who find in academia an explanation for all of this, and why it should not be ignored.
UNTIL SHE ENTERED high school, Margarita Mead had no formal education except for two years of kindergarten and then attended a tailored school half days because her mother and grandmother couldn't imagine a child out of staying in one place for an entire day.
But she came from a highly academic background. Her father was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and her mother, in Margaret's childhood memory, worked on a Ph.d.
reality, Margaret Mead takes just this sort of view in the first part of her autobiography, "Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years."
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Mead has led an invelibly independent life. She pictures herself as being from birth in a superior position, No one questioned her actions; no adult ever said to her as a child
"OUR ONGONG DISCUSSIONS," wrote Mead, "of course, tread light upon each of us as a person. Both Gregory and I felt that we, to some extent, deviate, each within our own culture. Many of the forms of aggressive male behavior that were standardized in English culture did not appeal to him. My own interest in children is focused on the career of American career woman or, for that matter, the stereotype of the possessive, managing American wife and mother. It was exciting to strip off the layers of culturally attributed expected behavior and to feel that one knew at last who one was."
in that peculiarly condescending way,
“那 was a stupid thing to do.” Only Meid
herself questioned her own actions.
“Blackberry Winter,” however, if she
herself doesn't question what she did, then
heir ears only in passing what she
did do.
She met Gregory Bateson, an English anthropologist, in New Guinea on a field trip with Fortune. She and Bateson got to know people from different places and come to know Fortune—from the deep and lengthy conversations that came immediately after a field trip where there was a lot of blood.
FOR EXAMPLE, Mead married three times and divorced three times, and she discusses each of these with a tone of eminent practicality. She married Luther Cressman, after a five year engagement, while she was a graduate student at Columbia, because "it had been our plan to live a life of great fragrance in a country rectory with a whole parish of people who own us and a house full of children of our own."
But Cressman decided against the ministry and Mead was told that she could not have children. She then divorced Cressman to marry Ro Forte, whom she saw as a partner anthropologist but never as a possible father.
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"Executive Action"-Burt Lancaster stars in this film conjecture about a possible scheme to assassinate President John F. Kennedy and of right-wing nulllegs, [Liljess Iriar].
"Love and Pain and the Whole DummTrunk." A middle-aged woman, played by Maggie Smith, has a European tour romance. She is played by romantica Rottungs, Hillierst.
"Magnum Force"—the sequel to "Dirty Harry" starring Clint Eastwood as a San Francisco police inspector tracking down a murder squad. Granada Theatre.
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Distilled, however, the mystery is actually Mead's desire for privacy. There are some things that you must other discuss when choosing a mate. A woman Mead chooses the latter for the most part, discussing completely her particular views and ideas on life and on her life.
THE FASCINATING THING about "Blackberry Winter" is that Mend analyses everything. Life has very little mystery for her, but she does own her life have little romance.
As a result of one of her field trips among a people who "actively disliked children," a point of view alien to her own nature, Mead decided to have a child, whatever the consequences. She could not picture Fortune as a father, and she had fallen in love with Bateson. She and Fortune divorced and she married Bateson.
Mead has a tendency to state theories about human actions as anthropological fact rather than as a result of human whumseh. She writes in the form that comes most
"Sleeper":—The latest Woody Allen comedy-satire about an owner of a health foods store who goes to a hospital for a simple operation and emerges 200 years later, only to get involved in a revolution that set state rule by a nose. Varsity Theatre.
Experimental Film Shorts - Avant-garde films including "Window Water," "Moving Baby," "Thattatops," "Science Friction," and "The Man." Jan. 28 in Wooldruff Auditorium.
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Hot to Trot and Mid Creek—Dance in the Kansas Union sponsored by the Gay Liberation. Jan. 25 from 8:30 to 12:30.
"Dirty Harry"—Clint Eastwood is a San Francisco policeman who gets his man with assorted adventures, Jan. 25-26 in Woodruff Auditorium.
Replacement for the Czech Chamber Orchestra in the Chamber Music Series Jan. 15, 2013.
"The Extended 'Hand'"—Spooner Art Museum exhibition featuring participatory art. Also related art, including Rodin's works and museum museums and collections. Jan. 25, 2017.
INHER RECENT MAGAZINE articles, such as those dealing with marriage as an institution and the women's liberation movement, Mead comes off as a human and nonhuman being. But he owns her own life. Mead, in, "Blackberry, Winter," is analytical to the breaking point.
"The Point" - A children's animated movie about a boy and his dog, Shadow, who don't fit into their society. Jan. 27 in Wooldraft Auditorium.
I have no doubt that Mead's discussions about everything from the cultural differences between British and American cultures to how children of a mother to life as a sorority reject are scientifically correct in statement and procedure of inquiry. Life can be scientifically analyzed, but when it is, it loses its ability or that part that makes life worth the effort.
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naturally to her. She would probably be uncomfortable in a less analytical, but more
Patricia Wise—Coloratura soprano and University of Kansas alumna. Jan, 26 at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium. Admission free with KU ID.
Horror Films - "Vampyr" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." Jan 20 in *Wild Things*.
Analytically, it is a superb treatise on a cultural anomaly—Margaret Garead. Romantically, it reads like a rather wonderful how-to book on almost anything.
"Woman of the Year": A Film Society movie starring Hilaria Hopper Tongnile on a dystopian planet.
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