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...cultural infantilization creep up on us? In The Disappearance of Childhood, a wonderful little book first published in 1982, Neil Postman, a New York University professor who died this month, identified a shift from a culture based on literature - on reading - to one based on the image. In a preliterate world, there's no distinction between children and adults. Look at a Bruegel painting, and you see adults eating, drinking, groping, necking, together with their children. Literacy changed all that. Reading has to be learned; it separates the world of the child from that of the adult. But children...
...familiar to anyone who has spent time in Africa, then unleashes a spellbinding mix of urgent chants, mournful cadenzas and more quiet testimony. She often sings as the outsider, a role she has played for most of her life. A diplomat's daughter, Traoré spent chunks of her childhood in Algeria, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. As a musician, she's had to fight for respect, since she was not born into the caste of griots, Mali's musician-bards. It's been hard "to make people accept you for who you are," she says. The outsider's refrain...
...Edward Teller's intense concern with the menace of tyranny traces back to his Hungarian childhood. When Teller was born, in 1908, into a Jewish family with culture and money, citizens of gay, well-fed Budapest could believe that the world was solid, dependable. But Austria-Hungary got into World War I on the losing side, and the seemingly solid world crumbled ... With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned into his son two grim lessons: 1) he would have to emigrate to some more favorable country when he grew...
Activities: Going out with Billy (Gil Bellows), the childhood love she followed to law school
Name: Paul Pfeiffer (“The Wonder Years”; Josh Saviano)School: FAS Activities: Studied law, according to childhood friend Kevin Arnold. Years after starting college, he was “still allergic to everything.” Year of Graduation: 1978 If Only Real Life Were So Kind: After “The Wonder Years” ended, Josh Saviano, the actor who played Paul, graduated from Yale in 1998 and is now a paralegal at a New York City law firm...