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...multiple autobiographical method, Lewis says that the several lives serve as a check on each other - the text reveals the consistently human trait of thinking better of oneself than others do. The biggest bone of contention with many critics has rather been with the fact that Lewis "edited and arranged" the material. I cannot agree with those who would see a distortion in his skillful job, however, for there are many spots in the text where the narrative jumps in an unavoidable illogical fashion from one experience to another. Furthermore, he will make the tapes available to any colleague...
...fingerlings released in 1952 came back from the ocean full grown. This was revolutionary; chinook salmon normally take four years to reach maturity. Donaldson selected spawn from the best of the 48, nursed the hatchlings into fingerlings and launched them into the sea. The fast-growing trait proved permanent; in 1958 a startling proportion of the class of '55 returned full grown to the hatchery. They were as big or bigger than ordinary chinooks, and their quick growth had saved them from a full year of ocean hazards. Only about 0.1% of ordinary chinook fingerlings survive to return...
...Theorizing that musical talent is an inherited trait, famed Italian Otolaryngologist Leopoldo Fiori Ratti gave musical aptitude tests to the parents of the Vatican's Pueri Cantori choirboys and other children picked at random. At the Second International Congress of Human Genetics in Rome last week, he reported that 60% of Pueri Cantori parents had high musical aptitudes (though not necessarily training or interest), while only 20% of other parents showed high scores...
...Reporting on hairy ear rims around the globe at the Rome genetics meeting last week, Dr. R. Ruggles Gates of London showed that the werewolfish trait is sexlinked. Only men have hairy ear rims, and nearly all of their sons inherit growths. On the other hand, their daughters have hairless ears, and so do those daughters' sons. The chromosome responsible: Y, the male sex determinant...
Wild Strawberries, Bergman's best, also argues that the measure of man is humanity rather than knowledge or achievement, but does so in a relaxed and skillfully developed study of a man who is made understandable. But throughout Virgin Spring, obsession is the key character trait. Ingeri, the slut who, in envy of the girl, casts the spel! that precedes her rape and death, excuses the murdrers by saying Odin has possessed them. The parallel to the householder's mindless slaughter of the murderers and blind dragging of his followers back to the scene of his daughter's death...