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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 03:43 PM
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The Americanization of Iraq
From the 1940s to the 1960s at Smith, Princeton, Yale, Mt. Holyoke, and Vassar; from the 1880s to the 1940s at Harvard; and from 1931 to 1961 at Radcliffe, America's future leaders were photographed naked.
http://www.houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000688.html

Yup.
They took nude photos of Poppy Bush, and
Babs of the beautiful mind, and
Dubya.

Em.: There's always a chance that one of them might turn out depraved and vicious, and then you could disown him. I've heard of that being done.
Maj.: But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Em.: Why couldn't he be naturally depraved. Lots of boys are.
Maj.: Only when they inherit it from depraved parents. You don't suppose there's any depravity in me, do you?
-- HH Munro
-- The Baker's Dozen

"Hersey went on to say that the pictures were actually made for anthropological research: "The reigning school of the time, presided over by E. A. Hooton of Harvard and W. H. Sheldon" -- who directed an institute for physique studies at Columbia University -- "held that a person's body, measured and analyzed, could tell much about intelligence, temperament, moral worth and probable future achievement. The inspiration came from the founder of social Darwinism, Francis Galton, who proposed such a photo archive for the British population." "
Isn't it interesting that the Nazis were involved in research similar to this?
http://www.houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000688.html
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