Word: noam
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...academic environment. "I'm aware that many students of varying classes, creeds and first names find it appalling that their brethren and sethren take for granted the collegiate environment to such an extent that the classroom becomes a legitimate context for the curative processes of sub-conscious retreat," comments Noam I. Weinstein '99, "but maybe people get tired...
...Harvard Glee Club followed, and as always, their energy and stage presence had an immediate, inspiring effect on the audience. In Harvard math professor Noam Elkie's arrangement of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," the Glee Club delivered some fabulous consonants--a point that Marvin clearly, and successfully, labors on with his choirs. Continuing on a high note, the warm, resounding harmonies of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," thrilled the ear. Finally, in the Thomas Tallis "Sanctus" from the "Mass for Four Voices," the group sang with such conviction and enthusiasm that one could imagine Tallis wishing...
...every word in a text. If they did and if they tried to translate what they saw into sounds, reading would be much too cumbersome. Somehow, though, children learned to read. To explain this, Smith adapted theories about the acquisition of oral language. In the mid-'60s the linguist Noam Chomsky had determined that a child's brain is actually wired with the rules of all spoken languages. Immersed in the world of speech, the child learns by experience which rules apply to the language of his community. Smith concluded that written language was acquired in the same fashion...
Some of the names mentioned by organizers include Noam Chomsky, an MIT professor, Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74, Elie Weisel and Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes...
...because Pinker writes in the same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. He likes to quote Mae West ("Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed University of Oxford zoologist Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review last week. "No other...