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Yet oddly enough, Kathy may have summed up the Lionel experience best when she said "I always thought of us as pretty typical. Looking past time off, past the inability to communicate and the near fist-fights, past the violent clash of cultures, it may just be that Lionel was...
Earlier contributors to the collection were Professors Child and Kittridge, who worked on English poetic fragments and oral traditions of other cultures. There has been a tradition of 120 years of a continuous research in oral literature at Harvard.
Students should be encouraged to pursue academic careers, he told the Science Center crowd, and academics should concentrate on grasping a better understanding of foreign cultures and lifestyles.
Bryant argues that we have long since passed the golden age of conundrums, when there were riddling magazines and contests that intrigued kings and poets. Today such puzzles are usually confined to children's books and Sunday supplements, a situation that leads the disgruntled anthologist to pose a question...
In the past few years, he has made the scale his major tool in documenting behavioral variations among newborns from different cultures. He has found, for example, that Kenyan babies are remarkably playful and well-coordinated, and Mayan infants are quieter and more alert. He saw very serene babies in...