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...Berry Brazelton, associate professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School is something of a renegade. At 65 his passion is babies, and he continues his lifelong work of documenting the distinct personalities of newborns, striking out beyond traditional medical research and delving into child development and psychology. He seeks through his non-traditional research and overall approach to understand each infant as a whole individual, and to communicate this understanding to their parents...
...from being a lump of clay or a blank slate. Brazelton conceives of a newborn with a distinct personality who has an impact on the parent-child relationship in his own right. This conception relieves some of the anxiety of parents who feel they alone are responsible for their child's character, and who cannot understand how anything could go wrong when they are doing everything right...
Trying to prove that a baby has a distinct personality is a little difficult--the babies he studies do not know how to talk yet. So in order to guage their interactive capabilities, Brazelton had to develop a standard scale of babies behaviors and overcome a long tradition which said babies had no personality...
Adams' uncompromising craftsmanship helped pioneer the growing public recognition of photography as an art form. His method was to control rigorously every element of the picture: lighting, composition, focus. The image for him broke down into ten distinct "zones" of tonal quality, ranging from deepest black to pure white, so that every picture was a careful symmetry of light and dark. "The negative is the score," he said. "The print is the performance." By the mid-'60s, Adams had virtually ceased taking photographs for public consumption, concentrating instead on making prints of earlier works (the performance grew darker...
...before the event, BLSA and the TWC learned that the HJLSA would protest the speaker's presence at Harvard. During the presentation, HJLSA protesters interrupted the speaker so frequently and so boisterously that the audience was deprived of the opportunity to hear his speech. One was left with the distinct impression that the purpose of disrupting the discussion was to convince BLSA and the TWC to never again invite a PLO speaker to Harvard. Neither the Dean nor other members of the faculty spoke-out against this disruption and violation of free speech...