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...event, sponsored by Wordsworth Books, was followed by a book signing outside of the lecture hall...
...narrator, obviously something more than the "sweet, resigned" wife that Melville hardly mentions, belongs to a world in which an intelligent woman's best friends might seem to be Wordsworth and Shakespeare and Keats; her story reads as if one of the Bronte sisters had gone off whaling. Yet for all the literary grandeur, much of the book possesses the reader like an unholy fever. A woman walks through the mist in a wolf-trimmed cloak. A madman cries, "Now we eat our fingernails. Now the spiny stars." Naslund writes with the fearlessness of her protagonist...
Pinker, who is also the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, used examples like this to illustrate his beliefs about language acquisition and to promote his new book, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language. The event was sponsored by the Askwith Education Forum and Wordsworth Books...
Harvard Square winners in the shopping category were Curious George Goes to Wordsworth for best children's bookstore, Tess for best designer clothing, the Cambridge Artists' Cooperative for best crafts and Out of Town News for best newsstand...
Harvard Square winners in the shopping category were Curious George Goes to Wordsworth for best children's bookstore, Tess for best designer clothing, the Cambridge Artists' Cooperative for best crafts and Out of Town News for best newsstand...