Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure the extent and nature of that intelligence, Lilly established his unique Dolphin Point Laboratory in the Virgin Islands, and in this intriguing but eccentric book he describes how he has examined and trained dolphins, recorded and analyzed their voices, lived like them-and even with them. Lilly, a neurophysiologist who has also had training in physics and biophysics, has spent hours underwater in a darkened pool, attempting to understand the sensations experienced by dolphins. He believes that dolphins try to communicate with man by mimicking human voices and he has cooperated in experiments trying to teach dolphins to speak...
...very fact that the U.S. was a nation only in name produced a fervent drive to create national symbols that sometimes obscured Jefferson's aspirations. The drive was fueled by waves of immigrants rushing to a virgin continent that offered fabulous opportunities for self-advancement. The gold-rush spirit animated Americanism, the country's unestablished religion. The whole public-school system was aimed at Americanization. Noah Webster's spelling book taught American English to Germans, Poles, Swedes, Italians-and declared that "Europe is grown old in folly, corruption and tyranny." Geography was American, and America was bigger...
...Haitian government would not allow the moviemakers in. When he learned the locale was to be Dahomey, Africa, the Duvalier representative protested formally. Yet French Photographer Henri Decae's location shots offer a remarkable re-creation of a land where images of voodoo gods and the Virgin Mary are worshiped at the same rituals. The cast of supporting villains and victims-led by Peter Ustinov-is uniformly excellent. As a fading beauty with a German accent, Taylor is reasonably effective, but Burton, playing an exhausted anti-hero in the same style as his memorable The Spy Who Came...
Issacs, a consultant to the Planning Board, said that he wants to maintain the culture of the Virgin Islands against the rapid economic growth. "Unfortunately we're teaching the native population as many of our bad habits as we can," said Issacs. "When Cuba closed down, there was a redistribution of tourism which affected the Virgin Islands," he said, "but tourism is fickle and is not enough to establish a stable economy...
Isaacs said that he worked with the Planning Board with the aim of "training the people to help themselves." Vigier agreed that part of his concern as a consultant was to generate discussion of the development goals for the Virgin Islands amongst the Islanders themselves. He said, "They have to be heavily involved through their officials...