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...Yale students accept Griffin's analysis; most belong in one way or another to the abnormality school. In particular, there is a nearly unanimous sense among Yale students that they are somehow cheerless and ill-balanced--the way Harvard students feel during exam period, they feel all the time. "Actually, most people are pretty grim," one senior said last week...
This goes part of the way to solving the Shylock problem, though nothing can gloss over the fact that Shakespeare has given Shylock the motivations, actions and retribution that properly belong the stock stage Jew, but has written speeches that (at least to the modern ear) make him something better. And the production seriously stumbles at a critical point in the interpretation of Shylock's position in the play's scheme of redemption. When Portia confounds Shylock by allowing him his pound of flesh but condemning him to death if an iota of blood be spilled in its excision...
...come down from a peak of 9.2% in May, but it is still rising in Canada, Britain, Germany, France and most other European nations. In several, the jobless rolls are likely to go on expanding for another six months or so. In the 24 industrial countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a staggering total of 14.5 million workers are now idle-more than the entire population of The Netherlands. Production of goods and services spurted in the U.S. in the third quarter, but it is still stagnant or declining in Canada and the nine-nation...
Close Kin. If the bones do indeed belong to a true Homo, they provide one more link in a growing chain of evidence that indicates man's direct ancestors were stalking Africa's savannas-walking upright, perhaps hunting and using tools-as long as 4 million years ago. In 1972, following in his parents' footsteps, Richard Leakey discovered a nearly complete manlike skull at nearby Lake Rudolf in Kenya that is at least 2.6 million years old. More recently, Carl Johanson of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, digging in Ethiopia's bleak Awash Valley...
...concerned with a transcendent purity every bit as excessive and unattainable as the perfect body cleanliness of the deodorant-happy culture he abhors. His views on the psychological roots of dirty jokes, while delivered with ingenuity, verve and color (Legman will always call a spade a goddam shovel), belong to the Freudian orthodoxy as laid down by the master in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious...