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...Origin of its name is uncertain, but it may come from ale and wife because of the fish's large belly...
...explorations of the unconscious may also have made a contribution to structural theory. Like the taproots of culture, the foundation of speech exists beneath the level of awareness and the superimposed discipline of grammatical rules. The linguists and the structural anthropologists are united in the suspicion that the origin of human speech and of human society may have been equivalent events. Lévi-Strauss's books reflect his conviction that communication is the sine qua non of society, and that speech is only one of many ways by which society explicates itself. Music, art, ritual, myth, religion, literature...
Even in those productive days Lowell suffered a terrible physical strain. "He was struggling with two dynamos," says a friend, "one leading him to some kind of creative work, the other tearing him apart." The origin of what Lowell himself called his "break downs" is attributed by some friends to the "incredible tensions" that existed between Lowell's parents. Says one: "I don't see how he survived that family. He has written about it, but the reality is worse than he has written...
Several incidents marred the event. A mile from the march's origin, when some spectators hoisted an antiwar sign, several dozen paraders waded into them. Young toughs poured hot tar over a long-haired bystander for no other reason than his beatnik look, then covered him with feathers; he suffered minor burns. Otherwise the combativeness was limited mostly to vigorous flag-waving and the legends blazoned on hand-lettered signs. There were, of course, hyper-hawks galore, toting signs reading "Bomb Haiphong" and "Drop peaceniks on Hanoi." One banner proclaimed: "Ho Chi Minh is a fink-give...
Flipped Field. One large meteorite is believed to have fallen in the area of southern China, the Philippines and Australia, where tektites found on land all appear to have had the same origin. Basing their estimates on the distribution and radioactive dating of these tek- tites, scientists had long assumed that the meteorite weighed a few thousand tons and struck about 700,000 years ago. While he was examining sediment cores taken from more widely separated locations on the floors of the Indian and Pacific oceans, Geologist Glass discovered tiny tektites, apparently from the same meteorite. To have littered...