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Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks knows all this - and too much else besides, to attempt any glib definitions. On the first page of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he writes that music "has no concepts, makes no propositions; it lacks images, symbols, the stuff of language. It has...
In Musicophilia, as in the books that made his literary name, Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks dives into the crevices of the human mind in search of a cure and surfaces with enlightenment for us all. We are irritatedly familiar, for example, with...
Sacks' neurological interest in music dates back to the 1960s, when he noted that the parkinsonian patients he was treating could often inexplicably be roused from their catatonia by music. The leaps in brain science since then, particularly in magnetic resonance imaging scans, mean that neurologists can now actually see...
NEW YORK—For a brief while Saturday, it appeared that the Harvard band’s rendition of “Jump On It” had become the new Crimson fight song. The “it” was Columbia quarterback Craig Hormann, and the jumping...
NEW YORK—The Harvard defensive line looked like the dominant Crimson unit of a year ago during the team’s 27-12 win over Columbia on Saturday, as the front four punished the Lions offensive line to the tune of six sacks for 40 lost yards...