Word: alterity
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...young of immigrants who move out of the family orbit change their motor habits completely, begin to gesture like those in the new environment. Mixed marriages may alter the gestures of the spouses. Even in the same country motor habits are not stable. The British, for example, have not always manifested their present immobility. In Elizabethan times they gestured violently. Dr. Boas' conclusion from all this is direct and simple : motor habits are cultural, not biological...
...your story anent Hal Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
...medical names which stand biggest in the minds of the U. S. public are those of surgeons, not of physicians. A meeting of the American College of Physicians in Detroit last week did nothing to alter that fact. The men they chose to honor above all others were a young physiologist who probably will never practice medicine, an old physiologist who never did practice, and a re-articulated paralytic who has created a unique specialty of treating cripples such as he once...
...have been spoiled because a shy young thing refuses the man of her choice in Leap Year, fearing lest her acquaintances think she has been the aggressor? How many ornithologists have seen the birds observing Leap Year? What pisciculturist would have the audacity to maintain that the fishes would alter their simple system of courtship for a mere convention...
...prohibit the grazing of cattle on land taken out of crop production, were all voted down with ease. One important amendment to the bill was adopted: flood control was added to the things on which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first serious Senate sound-off on the AAA decision, Nebraska's old, white-crested George William Norris spoke for two hours in spite...