Word: interwoven
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...BRAZILIAN AUTHOR Ivan Angelo did not get bored with and laugh at his own words, their oppressiveness would send even the most patient reader scrambling for freedom and sanity. Laughter is, in fact, the reader's only means of warding off the cold, crushing force of the five interwoven tales of Angelo's recently translated book, The Tower of Glass...
...does the reader fit into this complex structure of interwoven times and multiple voices? "Terra Nostra," for example, has often been considered unreadable by critics. Yet Fuentes emphasizes that in spite of its difficulty, it is a novel which does not go unread. "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and "Where the Air is Clear" were both considered extremely difficult and complicated when they first appeared. Fuentes tells of one critic who suggested that "The Death of Artemio Cruz" served no better purpose than to be flushed down the drain. "Today," Fuentes says, "these novels are read by 15 year-olds...
Some of Brazelton's cross-cultural work has raised serious issues beyond questions of childrearing. By saying that Chinese babies are different from Americans, critics ask js Brazelton lending credence to racism? He says no, because even in newborn babies environmental influences on behavior are inseparably interwoven with the genetic. The health of the mother, the practices of giving birth, the family structure and the way the family treats its new member during its first crucial days all form part of the newborn's environment. As these factors vary from culture to culture, the infant shapes his behavior in response...
Officially divided in 1949 as a result of the Israeli-Jordanian armistice agreement, Jerusalem was reunited by the Israelis in the Six-Day War of 1967. The city's urban designers now see their task as the creation of a city so livable and so interwoven that no one will ever want or be able to divide it again. This is being accomplished cooperatively by Jews, Muslims and Christians, whose often volatile emotions are embedded in every stone...
...probably the best example anywhere in the country of this great integration between the museum function and the academic, teaching function," says James J. McCarthy, director of the museum. "Unlike any other Harvard museum, the activities are very intimately interwoven with the teaching functions of the department," he adds...