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...Within Our Gates" is even better (stranger). Another garbled answer to "Birth," "Gates" bastes a murder plot together with both white and black villains. A white woman rails against the education of black girls ("Thinking will give them a headache") and worries that it will give them the notion to vote. One Negro layabout, who has lyingly implicated a fellow black in a murder case so as to ingratiate himself with his white boss, preens in a dialogue intertitle: "Here I is 'mong da whi' fo'ks, while dem other niggahs hide in the woods." He is surrounded by white...
...mother of five with an M.B.A. and no clue what to do next. "I worked for a living, butted my head up against the glass ceiling," she recalls. "I knew after a few years I wasn't going to get much further." Then the notion of writing a story about a young woman in the Ice Age popped into her head. Auel wrote like a woman possessed, working all night and wearing out a string of typewriters. She rewrote The Clan of the Cave Bear four times before she was satisfied and then sold...
...proposal to ask the administration to ask professors to ask Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) officers to approve their courses for ROTC credit is an absurd and underhanded attempt to show support for the discriminatory institution itself. The Staff’s notion that this declaration is somehow balanced—by making life easier for the cadets while remaining neutral on the ultimate status of ROTC at Harvard—ignores the crucial fact that encouraging University interaction with ROTC officials is a tacit endorsement for ROTC itself...
Children on the autistic spectrum, however, are "mind blind"; they appear to think that what is in their mind is identical to what is in everyone else's mind and that how they feel is how everyone else feels. The notion that other people--parents, playmates, teachers--may take a different view of things, that they may harbor concealed motives or duplicitous thoughts, does not readily occur. "It took the longest time for Tommy to tell a lie," recalls Pam Barrett, and when he finally did, she inwardly cheered...
Another misperception about people with autism, says Karen Pierce, a neuroscientist at the University of California at San Diego, is the notion that they do not register faces of loved ones as special--that, in the words of a prominent brain expert, they view their own mother's face as the equivalent of a paper cup. Quite the contrary, says Pierce, who has results from a neuroimaging study to back up her contention. Moreover, the center of activity in the autistic mind, she reported at a conference held in San Diego last November, turns out to be the fusiform gyrus...