PRODUCTIVITY IN THE IVORY TOWER.

The article discusses the natural habitat of research based on the culture of an anthropologist's sense with emphasis on the application of research on American technology. The ideal of American research has been the disposable truth. Researchers in the universities tend to be ironists and they accept responsibilities under terms which are indistinguishable verbally from the language of the main culture. It is clear that well-supported research of possible use to society will furnish superior instrumentalities of observation.