Re: [pf] Rachel Carson, loner.

At 16:41 21/12/2000 -0800, Molly sent:
>From the Time-100: Scientists and Thinkers:
>http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/carson03.html
>

· There's a strong and I think childish ("But Ma! Everybody's doing it!")
wish to be like others. There are many examples, some from recently on this
list, but I'll just mention a surprisingly frequent description heard when
profiling a now-convicted criminal: "he was a loner."

· As a loner myself, I'm probably more sensitive to this than I need to be;
however, I want to ask you all not to accept unquestioningly that "he was a
loner" leads automatically to: "we/they should have been suspicious of him."

· I'm talking about the 1-to-1 identification, the automatic connection. I
/know/ that a bigger fraction of criminals are psychologically abnormal,
often damaged, than the general population.

· Rachel Carson is an opposite example, to provide some balance; she was a
loner.

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/carson.html
  ( which includes one sentence from one of her speeches:
http://image.pathfinder.com/time/time100/scientist/audio/carson.wav  )
  starts:

Environmentalist
Rachel Carson 

Before there was an environmental movement, there was one brave woman and
her very brave book 
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BY PETER MATTHIESSEN 
She was always a writer, and she always knew that. Like Faulkner,
Fitzgerald, e.e. cummings, Millay and E.B. White, 10-year-old Rachel Louise
Carson, born in 1907 in the Allegheny Valley town of Springdale, Pa., was
first published in the St. Nicholas literary magazine for children. A
reader and loner and devotee of birds, and indeed all nature, the slim, shy
girl of plain face and dark curly hair continued writing throughout
adolescence, chose an English major at Pennsylvania College for Women and
continued to submit poetry to periodicals. Not until junior year, when a
biology course reawakened the "sense of wonder" with which she had always
encountered the natural world, did she switch her major to zoology, not yet
aware that her literary and scientific passions might be complementary. 

Graduating magna cum laude in 1929, Carson won her master's degree in
zoology at Johns Hopkins, but increasing family responsibilities caused her
to abandon her quest for a doctorate. For a few years she would teach
zoology at the University of Maryland ...

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