Word: texts
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...life cycle and the manner in which whole societies respond to differing phases of personal development; his psychoanalytical research led him to author Gandhi's Truth, a psychological biography of the Indian leader, that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969. His Childhood and Society has also become a classic text. Erikson taught at the Medical School before joining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of Human Development--a post from which he retired eight years...
Despite the Nazi Holocaust, the Oberammergau Passion Play, Bavaria's decennial Catholic folk pageant, has gone on using an 1860 text that portrays Jews as Shylocks and Christ killers. Since the Second Vatican Council's denunciation of antiSemitism, however, a group of townspeople led by Head Woodcarver Hans Schwaighofer has been agitating to dump the lurid script. Last year Schwaighofer's group staged a trial run of a 1750 version that makes Satan the heavy and, like the New Testament, portrays the Jews as divided over Jesus. In February the town council voted to use that version...
...soon, it turns out. In a bitterly fought election last March, hard-liners wrested control of the town council. This month the council voted 12 to 5 to keep the 1860 text, an action that prompted a Munich paper to bemoan the "ugly German" image it fosters. "We're thinking about changing a few points." said Mayor Ernst Zwink, but that will not satisfy Jews. The text is "beyond redemption." declared Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the A.J.C...
...Hirsch will employ eleven graduate students who will rewrite a series of student papers and supposedly make them easier to understand. The original papers and the rewrites will then be given to separate groups of readers who will be timed on how fast they read the two versions. "A text's intrinsic effectiveness is the proportion between its effectiveness and that of a synonymous version which is optimally effective," says Hirsch. "Effectiveness is in turn defined as an inverse measure of reader effort." In more readable terms, the less time it takes someone to read the paper, the more...
...concludes are "just the facts, ma'am." He seems to believe that in time the import of the major accomplishments and crises of his presidency will become fully realized, and the personal feelings he aroused and felt will dwindle. If he is right, his book will be a basic text. But it will not help the historian conjure...