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Offutt blends wit, compassion and insight to make this memoir a much more palatable brew than the crude Kentucky Straight. At its heart, The Same River Twice is touchingly human. Offutt's honest, self- effacing style seduces the reader with its openness. Twenty-five centuries ago, Heraclitus asserted that you cannot step into the same river twice. Offutt, too immerses himself in the old conundrum of change and decay. His story springs from time-honored tradition and flows it course with a river's enchanting elegance...
...terms of experience, I don't see how you can find anyone who could compare to Phil in terms of knowledge and insight about the department," said Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg '49, who worked with Heymann as a Watergate prosecutor...
...exit scenes, in which characters continue lengthy dialogue while trapped ambiguously between lines and exit cues. The gender reversal of many of Mamet's male characters--though potentially interesting in light of much current debate on gender--remains undeveloped. As women, these formerly male characters offer no relevant insight into the innumerable questions that this type of inversion could raise...
...lasting legacy of Mansfield's statements, however, might not be the search for truth about the origins of grade inflation, graduates said. Comments like Mansfield's, graduates said, serve more to hurt the present sense of community on campus than to give any insight into the past...
Psychologists concoct some absurd situations to plumb the depths of chimp insight. For instance, one experiment has the apes observe two handlers deliver cups of juice. One accidentally spills juice on the floor; the other overturns the cup deliberately. When asked to choose a handler to deliver their next cup of juice, chimps prefer the clumsy person, suggesting that they are aware they are better off with a klutz than with a helper with evil intent. Again, in analogous experiments capuchin monkeys appear to be less shrewd. The animals will, pitiably, continue to put their trust in a human helper...