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The late British psychologist Cyril Burt was eminent in his profession: he held the psychology chair at London's University College, was knighted by King George VI and won the Thorndike award from the American Psychological Association. As a government adviser, he helped restructure the British educational system in...
As part of her professional discipline, Woolf began and sustained a writer's diary, brushed up on her Latin, and undertook to learn Russian. For recreation this intensely introspective yet active woman walked, skated and rode horseback. She managed a town and a country house and, in Nigel Nicolson...
Grizzled Veterans. With Hua on the viewing stand were the country's other leaders: the top army commanders and the entire membership of the Politburo (except the ailing Liu Po-ch'eng). The four purged radicals-Chiang Ch'ing, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, Wang...
For a dwindling few, the good life is still dictated by the exclusionary standards of an antebellum aristocracy. The great Mardi Gras balls of New Orleans are reserved for the private delectation of the old Creole coterie. Charleston's St. Cecilia Society demands stiffer credentials of a would-be...
The predictions for the South of 1990 indicate growth at a breakneck speed: a 22% increase in population, v. 15% for the nation as a whole; a 38% increase in jobs, largely in manufacturing, v. 28% for the nation; a 55% increase in per capita income, v. 48% nationally. To...