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Arts First Executive Producer and member of theBoard of Overseers Winifred White Neisser '74chaired the committee to select the arts medalwinner. Neisser said recipients must do more thansimply show artistic talent...
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet John Updike '54 will receive this year's Harvard Arts Medal, Winifred White Neisser '74, a member of the Board of Overseers, announced yesterday...
...Olympic committee, not commercialism, not even a bomb, can extinguish the Olympic ideal. Some of the most heated matches in these Games--boxing, baseball, volleyball--will be between Cuba and the U.S. Yet the other night, after Jeff Rouse of the U.S. defeated two Cubans, Rodolfo Falcon Cabrera and Neisser Bent, in the 100-m backstroke, Cabrera took his seat at the press conference, smiled at Rouse in admiration and patted the chair next to him as an invitation. It was the smallest and the largest of gestures...
...early recall. Most people's earliest clear recollections date back to around age 4 or 5. Before that, they believe, the mind holds at best primitive pictures but no coherent memory. "Under a year, a child doesn't have the mental structure to understand how events hang together," says Neisser. "I wouldn't give you a nickel for memory in the first year of life...
...cases involving the McMartin Preschool, Oliver North and the Hillside Strangler, speculates that such prestige- enhancing revisionism by Thomas could be one explanation for why his memory differs so radically from Hill's. Thomas is a "rigid person who insisted on the prerogatives of his position," observes Emory's Neisser; such people can be "good repressers" of unpleasant memories. As for Hill, Loftus suggests that it is possible she unconsciously confused some past experiences. "Could she have gotten the information elsewhere and created this story?" asks Loftus...