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Gardens soon sprouted, and so did kids. Families flocked to the development, drawn by the community spirit, open spaces and the bike paths that connected them to downtown Davis. "It really is a village," says Kit Bruner, 51, who moved in 15 years ago with her husband and two children. "There were eight 8-year-old boys in a two-block radius. You knew the parents of the child your child was playing with...
...abilities). Reviewers praised Frames of Mind for eloquently making new arguments on behalf of the multifaceted position, but they complained that Gardner's theory is too speculative. "The discussion is all hunch and opinion," wrote George Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology. The eminent developmental psychologist Jerome Bruner, a onetime colleague of Gardner's, said the book was "in many ways brilliant" but that Gardner succeeded "only moderately well" in proving the existence and independence of the seven intelligences. In particular, Bruner said, the arguments for the kinesthetic and personal intelligences "stumble badly...
...pages; $24), one of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre. The investigating priest is soon dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents. Among those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze Our Lady falls through. Lurking on the sidelines are a sleazoid journalist with a bent for blackmail, and Seville's worldly...
According to Nesson's Web page, the five scholars Berkowitz's on ad hoc committee were Jerome Bruner, a noted psychologist and professor at New York University; Leon Kass, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago; Ellen Kennedy, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; Isaac Kramnick, a political theory professor at Cornell University; and Maria M. Tatar, professor of German at Harvard. Bruner co-founded Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in 1960 while a professor here...
Kass, Kramnick and Tatar would not confirm or deny that they served on the committee. Bruner and Kennedy were unavailable for comment...