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...question." I was asked to introduce him at one of his New York City appearances, which amounted to readings (he would not consent to give a speech). He was courtly and dutiful, but his mind was beating loudly elsewhere. It was dumbfounding to weigh his knowledge, as a naturalist, linguist, translator, biographer, the most evocative writer on the sea since Homer--and, through his stories of Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin, portraitist unrivaled about life at sea, at war, at home and in the shadows of the warmakers of Britain, France and Spain. He was only...
Kristeva, the director of the Doctoral Programin Language, Literatures and Civilizations at theUniversity of Paris, is a noted literary theoristand linguist...
Robert Skinner Boyd '49 has always been a linguist...
Robert Skinner Boyd '49 has always been a linguist...
...rights have seen same-gender sex as a uniquely human phenomenon, one of the many ways our famously corruptible species flouts the laws of nature. But nature's morality, it seems, may be remarkably flexible, at least if the new book Biological Exuberance (St. Martin's Press), by linguist and cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl, is to be believed. According to Bagemihl, the animal kingdom is a more sexually complex place than most people know--one where couplings routinely take place not just between male-female pairs but also between male-male and female-female ones. What's more, same...