Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is modern particle physics--or, for that matter, Sheldon Glashow--all about? Glashow gives a pithy, if somewhat superficial account in the introduction to his Oct. 1, 1975 article in Scientific American, "Quarks with Color and Flavor." Glashow writes...
...catering business, she needs credit; the business cannot borrow unless Miss Brooks and her partner, another single woman, prove their personal creditworthiness. Says Janet: "I've tried Master Charge, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, local stores, you name it. I walk into a store and apply for a charge account; I get back a notice that my credit has been refused because I have no credit history...
Laughing Last is much closer to the book Alger Hiss should have written. If Tony Hiss errs, it is on account of a candor that at times is almost too blunt. We are told more about the sex lives of father and son than perhaps we want to know. But that flaw is understandable, the idea behind the book is to get us to see Alger Hiss as do those close to him, as "Al", the disciplined, kind, warm father and husband who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. So we learn of Al's love...
...many old misconceptions about Africans and a condescending attitude towards their culture--that there are no important African languages and literatures; that African languages are childish and crude reflecting upon a society with uncritical, unspeculative, and unanalytical mind; that some of them are "unintelligible in the dark" on account of the fact that they are communicated through signs and gestures having little resemblance to languages; that they do not have proper grammar and syntax; that it is worthless to study them since they are fast disappearing being replaced by English and French; that there exists "no civilized nation...
...deal through translations and use of extensively available secondary literature. But how can a serious anthropologist get a truly scholarly perspective from her/his so-called informants through interpreters and interpretations? Can a serious historian really claim to have access to the best possible sources of a people's systematic account of their social, political, economic, cultural or religious history without first having the tools, especially such basic tools as languages, for his/her investigations? Can one really grasp the profound thoughts and philosophies of a people via translations and secondary works alone? Journalists, politicians, and high school teachers need only basic...