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...with dozens of friends. It was to be a celebration of his life and relationships, bonds he'd formed, not easily, over many years with many people. That he was dying was inescapable, though. Pretending otherwise, when he never did, would have been inappropriate. I chose to read from Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees and The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, the Polish journalist and author who was for decades the sole third-world correspondent for a Polish news agency. As it happened, I read too long from the former and had to forego...
...they're out of their teens, when British royals rut as strenuously as rock stars and a President gets impeached for accepting fellatio from an intern, deportment is a Victorian concept. Even in the 50s, a decade of such screen seraphs as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Grace Kelly and Jean Simmons (William Wyler's first choice for the role of Princess Ann), Hepburn was a glorious anachronism. She represented a moral and emotional aristocracy that no longer exists - if it ever did, outside of her pictures...
Variations of experiments like this one, examining infant attention, have been a standard tool of developmental psychology ever since the Swiss pioneer of the field, Jean Piaget, started experimenting on his children in the 1920s. Piaget's work led him to conclude that infants younger than 9 months have no innate knowledge of how the world works or any sense of "object permanence" (that people and things still exist even when they're not seen). Instead, babies must gradually construct this knowledge from experience. Piaget's "constructivist" theories were massively influential on postwar educators and psychologists, but over the past...
...Jean-Philippe Cotis, chief economist at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, says the critical question is whether the U.S.'s housing woes are an isolated problem or a signal that the entire U.S. economy is overextended. "For the moment it looks like there is only marginal overheating," he says...
...Langham Hotel’s chocolate buffet. Saturday, Jan. 20 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m., continues through April Trolley Stop Store, corner of Boylston and South Charles St. Boston $75 5)Encyclopedia Britannicus Catch the exciting opening weekend performance of Britannicus, by Jean Racine and directed by Robert Woodruff at the Loeb Drama Center. This modern take on an ancient Greek myth is sure to be much more thrilling than your Greek Heroes final exam, with no study guide necessary. Saturday, Jan. 20 until February 11, 8 p.m. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...