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...looks out of her cottage window on nature and, sure enough, starting right on schedule with January, records the seasons as they come and go at Tinker Creek in Virginia. After the obligatory prologue resolving to "cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity," pace Thoreau, she introduces her obligatory cat and a goldfish named Ellery Channing. Then onto your feet. In "the long slant of light that means good walking," she points out the sights: the creek, 17 ft. wide; a favorite Osage orange tree; a sycamore log bridge; a tiny grassy island; a quarry; woods leading up to the Blue...
...physical abuse and "excessive" psychological pressure to modify the behavior of nonvolunteers, then much of the controversy surrounding behavior mod might well dissipate. That would leave more energy for trying to turn promising programs into full-fledged successes. In Denver, for instance, 18 incorrigible delinquents inhabit the CAT house, more formally known as the Colorado Closed Adolescent Treatment Center. The kids run their own modification program, with adult guidance. It has worked astonishingly well inside the institution. But "our biggest problem is getting the kids out of here," says Psychologist Vicki Agee, who is in charge. The first five youngsters...
Like Lewis Carroll's ubiquitous Cheshire Cat, the teaching fellow (TF) appears everywhere--in the laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms, libraries and house--available for assistance, advice, instruction and recommendations. The TF is the intermediary between the undergraduate and a harried junior and aloof senior faculty; the TF is the basic source of personalized instruction standing between the much touted 6:1 student-faculty ratio and the unmentionable $3200 yearly tuiton...
Like the Cheshire Cat, the teaching fellow may now dematerialize. Asking for more work in less time, the University has placed the TF in the position of trying to study and launch his or her career while aiding Harvard substantially in the interim. It is an untenable position whose costs must be borne somewhere...
Sarah's own mother died when she was three. Much later her father died. Then her nanny died. Everybody seems to die on Sarah, even her beloved Abyssinian cat, leaving her pretty much alone with a house in London, a house in Scotland and a frantic sense of emptiness that keeps her asking: "What is it that I must do?" In this mood she meets an unnamed psychiatrist and executes a textbook case of transference. When, in less than three years, her analyst dies too, Sarah attempts suicide (as she had done more than once before), then withdraws...