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...indicate her preferences of lyrics and musical styles. Linguistics professor Bert Vaux, who has lectured on Koko in his class, Social Analysis 34: Knowledge of Language, responded to early claims that Koko was a songwriter, saying, “This scheme is consistent with what [The Language Instinct author Steven] Pinker accuses the animal trainers of doing with Koko and the other ‘talking’ animals – taking utterances of limited content and coherence and augmenting them with more fluid pronouncements from the imaginations of the human handlers...
...detergent, then a dishwasher detergent named Kleeneze will be good too. But the power of brand extension operates more on a subrational level of sheer name recognition. The notion that Jones Jr. will make a good Senator because Jones Sr. did is less a rational assumption than a primitive instinct...
...also resembles Updike. Sometimes so does McCoy. Is it his own face that Updike is asking us to seek? Maybe McCoy is his wished-for self, diving into the volcano of instinct. But it's Hope who has his gift for rustling language. When she remembers the way her German-born art instructor spoke a "ponderous slow English, like concrete dripping in clumps inside a turning mixer," what you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went to the trouble of learning to read...
...spiraling abstraction, he was drawing connections between the most radical modernism and old traditions of American art and life. What his picture hints is that the 20th century had a backstairs connection to the 19th. Sheeler suspected, and he was right, that a Pennsylvania farmhouse drew upon the same instinct for clarity and simplicity as a Cezanne, that modernism was not a break with the past but an excavation of its underlying structures...
...Bush Administration has been yoked to a UN inspection timetable that could, if Saddam avoids overt confrontation, drag matters on into next February, and even then not produce a definitive case for a UN-sanctioned war. The neo-conservative flagship Weekly Standard warns that absent any self-destructive instinct on Saddam's part, even 100 days from now the most likely outcome of the renewed inspection program will be sufficiently ambiguous to simply make a case for giving the inspectors even more time, further dissipating Washington's regime-change momentum...