Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hauser said he'll continue to focus on researchquestions which interest him most, including"show[ing] how the mind evolved using primates asa tool to what features of our own thoughts andemotions are unique and which ones are shared withother animals, in particular, primates," Hausersaid...
...When I came to Harvard, I had one or two [concentrations] in mind. Now, the possibilities seem limitless," she says. Murphy says she believes that having to declare her concentration in her first year has made the process more difficult...
Well, what else did I have in mind for my twilight years? Not that much. A writer turns 55, the old double nickel, and the slender thread of inspiration has unraveled and you clomp around in circles like an old pony at the pony ride and beautiful women come up and tell you how much their mothers liked something you did in 1975. Your prose style turns flabby. Your work has the shelf life of tropical fish. Compared to that, fathering a baby is sheer nobility, a shot at immortality...
...point is The Rich Man's Table (Knopf; 273 pages; $23), an expertly written novel by Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love, that rips off the life of Bob Dylan. Most readers will recall that Dylan was a scraggly haired harmonica player with an edgy voice and an edgy mind, a Jewish kid from Minnesota who changed his name from, let's see, Zimmerman? And later converted to Christianity for a few years. The character who dominates Spencer's novel was born Stuart Kramer, transformed himself as "Luke Fairchild," and came from "the Midwest," not specifically from Minnesota. Otherwise...
...relieved to read Andrew Ferguson's piece on road rage and how automobile drivers lose control and act out behind the wheel [SOCIETY, Jan. 12]. He couldn't have better summarized the state of mind of the average driver. It is all because of the never ending stress of everyday life. Jobs are getting more competitive, and life-styles are changing. Scary, but it's what is happening. Driving like idiots is just one way of expressing it! ADNAN SHAIKH ALI Karachi...