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...expectations of women were so low and so stereotyped that if you tried to break the mold you hit on a certain amount of consternation from everybody, including one's own family...that's rough," Shayes says...
...seriousness of the returning soldiers coupled with their family obligations took them away from the normal social circles at Harvard. The administration encouraged the veterans to relax, and not without a certain wistfulness, noted a fall...
...There is a certain mystery about that group, and that time," he says. "Many of us have had numerous different careers, for instance...
...return for the boredom of country life...we received solitude, free time, the night stars and a certain clarity that comes when you feel abandoned," he writes in his 35th reunion note...
Specific brain disorders can affect the perception of music in very specific ways. Experiments done on epileptics decades ago showed that stimulating certain areas of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain awakened "musical memories"--vivid re-creations of melodies that the patients had heard years earlier. Lesions in the temporal lobe can result in so-called musicogenic epilepsy, an extremely rare form of the disorder in which seizures are triggered by the sound of music. Autism offers an even greater puzzle. People with this condition are mentally deficient, yet most are proficient musicians; some are "musical savants...