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Itard's plan was to lead Victor into the world of ideas through the realm of his senses--to make him sensitive to the subtle stimuli of a controlled environment. After modifying Victor's sense of touch with daily baths and focusing his wandering gaze, Itard sought to teach him the connection between the look and feel of objects and their corresponding names. But even at this early stage Itard ran aground. Victor's senses responded only when food was involved: he turned to the sound of walnut being cracked but remained unflinching in the face of a deafening blast...
...music, Richard Rodgers is incapable of writing an uningratiating tune. But several of the numbers seem more suited to rocking a cradle than stir ring a realm, and Sheldon Harnick's lyrics confuse spareness with childishness...
...leftists. The author accuses the Christian Democrats of fragmentation and the left of being unwilling to assume the responsibilities that accompany official power. Such a simultaneous attack on the center and the left would seem to put the author's own perspective somewhere in between, in the realm of intellectual liberalism...
Most parents regard TV's Sesame Street as a benevolent baby sitter, but Viewer Edward Hoagland, 43, has noticed something more. Animals, he suggests, are now an endangered species in the realm of make-believe. The Muppets are perky humanoids or cuddly monsters; Big Bird is barely the simulacrum of an ostrich. For that matter, Hoagland notes, Bugs Bunny was less obviously a member of the genus Lepus than were such precursors as Peter and Br'er Rabbit...
This Henry is a platoon sergeant rather than lord of the realm. It is not only his gawky stance that denies the cleverness and kingliness of Henry V's character, but also his brusquely rushed vocal delivery that seems to mimic Richard Burton's voice without offering any of its sumptuously resonant timbre...