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...Love You." Being a popularizer of linguistics is no easy task. When he gets to "paralanguage"-the meanings resident in the ways words are voiced -Farb begins to belabor the obvious. Every lover knows that "I love you" is a vocal variable, to be interpreted by the vibrations. In his enthusiasm for "body language"-the things said by facial expressions, gestures, posture -Farb goes far beyond most scholars of the new linguistics. "Pupil performance," he proclaims, "does not depend so much upon a school's audio-visual equipment or new textbooks or enriching trips to museums as it does...
Still, when the theorizing becomes heavy, Farb knows how to entertain himself and his readers with a rich miscellany of random facts and provocative (if not always documented) opinions that spill beyond his outline...
...European investors, the U.S. offers an abundant supply of skilled labor-which is increasingly scarce at home-and an inflation rate that is low by current European standards. Farb-werke Hoechst AG, a West German chemical company, will spend $30 million this year to expand two existing American plants. Britain's Cadbury Schweppes Ltd. broke ground last month on a $10 million chocolate factory in Hazleton...
...Albaugh, an Ohio girl who customarily works in the U.S. Air Force dependents' school in Wiesbaden, is getting 25 enthusiastic German children to tell about the days of the week in English. Later, the classes mix, sing alternate stanzas of Go Down Moses and Nach grüner Farb, mein Herz verlangt. After two weeks of Americans' visiting Germans, the German children come to the American school for a fortnight, and so it goes all year...
From the LIFE Nature Library series (by mail order only; $3.95 a book): THE FOREST, by Peter Farb; THE SEA, by Leonard Engel; and THE DESERT, by A. Starker Leopold...