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...Aguaruna Indians lived in secluded families rather than communities, dressed in dingy loincloths and bird plumage, and let their women do most of the work while they went off to hunt or war with Ecuador's head-shrinking Jivaros. Now, the Indians-spiffed up in khaki pants and cotton sports shirts-are working on road gangs, settling into villages, and even taking up farming, cattle raising and carpentry...
...Chicago's Mather High School, an honors class in physics is discussing the properties of gas. "They mix together," volunteers one student. "They expand and contract," says another. How about constructing a model, suggests Teacher Daniel Cieslik: "Should it look like a big wad of cotton? That expands and contracts." By prodding and questioning, Cieslik eventually gets the class to focus on the rapid molecular motion that characterizes gases...
...docket system "a kind of quota based on the excellence of the boys involved." While it no doubt favors such places as Exeter and Andover, Peterson believes that "Harvard should maintain a Yankee flavor, and besides, schools like these were themselves selective in choosing their students." Dana M. Cotton, the senior member of the admissions committee with 23 years under his belt, points out that Exeter and Andover are not supplying as many Harvard students as they used to, "which the headmasters there understand but which is difficult to explain to a parent who sent his son to Andover...
Whether there actually was, as the Prologue states, "a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields" is irrelevant. Gone With the Wind convinces us that there was, and like the Iliad, becomes as much a part of the national heritage as the story it tells...
...pictures looks like a Scottish meadow sprinkled with sleeping sheep. In another, more enlarged, the curious objects that looked at first like sheep actually seemed to resemble four tufts of cotton joined at a central point...