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...with one eye on the kids as they built sand castles on the Jersey shore or saved it to consume during coffee breaks, the epic sucked you in with its portrayal of the frailty of human passions when pitted against Destiny. The central tale of a priest's life-long affair with an indomitable, vibrant young girl who embodied the very essence of the Outback may have seemed a little far-fetched, but it worked. The book was a blockbuster...
...19th century study of craniometry to current I.Q. testing. The attempt to measure intelligence, Gould argues, implies "a subtle and mistaken theory of limits whose essence is that the differences among people spring from genetic inheritance." The foray into the controversial terrain of intelligence testing reveals Gould's life-long belief in the indivisibility of politics and science...
Adjustment to life in Cambridge came easily enough--with one possible exception. His support of the city of his birth is well-known--he dedicated one of his books to three teachers from his public grammar school in Queens--and he has maintained a life-long passion for the home team, the New York Yankees. His passion for Joe DiMaggio and those who followed him in pinstripes has not cooled, despite the distinctly hostile surroundings he has lived in for 14 years. Gould has even been known to wear his Yankee cap to lectures, a move many regard...
Equipped with setters, spikers, and diggers, the women's volleyball program resembles a prospector on a life-long search for precious metals. The Crimson first struck gold last May when the Standing Committee on Athletics approved the squad's proposal for varsity (Level II) status and concomitant funding...
...memoirs present several outwardly damning facts about the author. But he faces squarely such problems as occasional reliance on sleeping pills or psychiatrists because, after all, no one can be expected to lead a life of unrelieved virtue. Certainly, the faults do not impinge upon Galbraith's fit-as-a-fiddle self-image; he notes, for example, that he has suffered from a life-long fear that arose not from being "more versatile, more diligent or perhaps more useful than my colleagues," but from the fear "that my superiority would not be recognized...