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Czeslaw Milosz, Norton Professor of Poetry and a Nobel Prize-winning Polish dissident, is "a poet tormented by the shortcomings of language," a Faculty colleague of Milosz's told an audience of about 150 in Boylston Hall yesterday...
...experts, like Sociologist Dr. Kersti Yllo of Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., speculate that "loving" violence may partly be a byproduct of women's push for equality. Uncertainty about once traditional roles, she reasons, makes men more anxious to assert themselves and women more anxious to fight back...
...getting tagged by a Hearns right hand. For his part, the Hit Man didn't seem to fear Leonard at all until he took a beating in the sixth and seventh. After that he was a different fighter. He looked like Muhammed Ali looked each time he fought Kenny Norton. You could almost hear him thinking, "Can't let this guy close. Can't let him near me. Just four more rounds...
...book established Gould as a writer of considerable appeal outside of the scientific community. He published another essay collection in 1980, The Panda's Thumb, which won the American Book Award and broadened his audience even further. Gould is now, according to an executive at his publishing house, W.W. Norton, one of the company's "most valuable" authors...
...latest book, to be published by Norton next month, reflects the breadth of interests his friends mention. The book, The Mismeasure of Man, concerns the efforts by modern man to quantify human intelligence--from the 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...