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...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...
...choose to host its International Fireworks Competition, International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs Festival, International Film Festival, and Grand Prix in late January. However, one of Montreal’s 90 organized festivals is on during intersession, the famed La Fête des Neiges. Go to Parc Jean-Drapeau to watch the dogsled races in honor of Balto! He’s so brave! Before leaving the land of universal healthcare, stop at the magnificent Notre-Dame Basilica and pray for a change in Harvard’s calendar. Maybe next time you can drink with the rest...
...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...