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The implications of Bruner's experiments are far-reaching. If he is able to demonstrate the innate intelligence of the infant, it may remind educators of the root meaning of their profession, which is to educe, or lead out, rather than to impose learning. Bruner himself concedes that it...
"In the beginning, it was hell to learn," said one of the soloists, American Soprano Maria de Francesca, "but almost overnight the meaning opened up. Later, I was scheduled to sing Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. Suddenly Strauss seemed awfully strange to me."
Deer Hunting Is Worse. Without success, Canadian government officials try to rebut the more emotional charges. They point out that the publicity, ironically, deals only with the gulf hunt, which is now closely patrolled and more humane than it was before 1965. Thirty inspectors were on the floes this year...
The proof, Augustine argued, was in two Scriptural passages: the first three chapters of Genesis and the fifth chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. To Augustine, the story of the creation and fall in the Genesis chapters was literal history, the doleful record of man'...
Whistles and Whips. Most of Xenakis' ear-jarring music is an extension in sound of the calculus of probability, one of whose basic concepts is Bernoulli's law of large numbers. It says, in effect, that the occurrence of any chance event-the roll of a seven in...