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...exceed the male average even in supposedly masculine characteristics-some distinctions turn up remarkably early. At New York University, for example, researchers have found that a female infant stops sucking a bottle and looks up when someone comes into the room; a male pays no attention to the visitor...
David Wiggins, Dept. of Philosophy London University (visitor at Harvard...
...school has its own miniature transistor factory. In small, whitewashed rooms, the kids hunch over the tiny things, putting them together in silence, with determination. A visitor asks a 15-year-old girl what she wants to be when she graduates. "I wish to be a successor to the revolutionary spirit of the proletariat," she says. She carries an open copy of Mao's little red book. Yes, yes, says the questioner, but how does she want to do that? "I want to do what is beneficial to the people," the girl responds...
...knows that, replies the insistent visitor, but specifically just what does she want to do? "I want to do what the party wants me to do," the girl replies, or at least that is what the translator says. One of the visitors speaks up. "If we had asked that question in America, she would have said she wanted to grow up and get married." The answer is translated and it has an odd effect. Instantly the somber expressions of the girls vanish; they laugh among themselves...
...last trip to Peking, in 1970, Snow was invited to stand beside Mao on the rostrum at the National Day celebrations. The visitor accurately interpreted this honor as a sign that Mao wanted better relations with the U.S., and Mao confirmed that in his interview with Snow, in which he virtually invited Nixon to come to Peking...