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...Evil Place. The Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...
...does one reduce the idea of God and the Devil to scientific terms? In Jung's view, they are manifestations of age-old archetypes present in the more obscure layers of the human mind since the earliest times. Jung's discovery of these archetypes dates from before 1912 when, as an associate of Freud, he noted that myths, fairy tales and religious visions were similar in many ways to dreams, and could, like dreams, be interpreted as emanations from the unconscious mind. Jung also noted that the myths and religious symbols of widely differing peoples and epochs...
...erased any idea that the gifted child is usually a peculiar, eccentric misfit." He was speaking to a peculiarly receptive audience: some 235 past and present Quiz Kids who were gathered to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the program's first appearance on the air. Some of the earliest Quiz Kids are now parents (one has three children). So far, the grown-up prodigies have met none of the dire fates that are often predicted for precocious sprouts: not one has cracked up mentally or got into any serious trouble. Not one has even turned out to be just...
...largest and earliest projects undertaken by the G.S.E. was the establishment of the Laboratory of Human Development in 1949. Created to study the behavior of children, the eventutal goal of the project is to help schools understand the needs, resources, and ideals of the children placed in their care...
...drop in on the backbench organization still known as the 1922 Committee, though only a handful of today's backbenchers were M.P.s in 1922. The Prime Minister got a rousing cheer when he told the rebels of the government's plans "to denationalize road haulage at the earliest possible moment." Then, step by step, the Prime Minister covered the points at issue. "He went over the same old ground," said one backbencher, "but somehow, if the Old Man took you from Piccadilly Circus to Kensington every day for a year, the trip would still be fascinating...