Word: shelteredness
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They say that Harvard is a sheltered community. Inside the gates of Harvard Yard one finds the disillusioned cynic who sees no purpose within the American system.
Her directors find her aura of mystery the clue to her appeal. Vittorio De Sica, who worked with her in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, says that she must play characters who are not obvious, women who do not express what is inside. "With Dominique," he observes, "one must...
YOUR BASIC Red-Blooded Post-War American Kid grew up reading science fiction. He sheltered C.S. Lewis's Perelandra beneath the edge of a junior high school desk; he tripped across decades of The Martian Chrnoicles on hot, tedious summer afternoons; he liked Kurt Vonnegut for years before Slaughterhouse Five...
Such is the scenario proposed by Professor Marinatos, the autocratic old genius of Greek archaeology, who has spent the past four summers excavating the rich Minoan town that he discovered on Santorini. The site of his dig is shrouded in rosy dust, shaded by tin-roof sheds, and shielded by...
In the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly a number of members of the Harvard faculty have praised the scientific merit of Herrnstein's I.Q. article. A brief comment: At this time, there is no proper, scientific basis for disentangling the relative contributions of heredity and environment to intelligence. A...