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...intricacy of their myths and cultural practices and found tribal peoples to be sophisticated and intellectually curious, a picture of them he laid out in his 1962 book The Savage Mind. And in his four-volume Mythologies, he showed the immense complexity behind the stories tribal people use to explain the world...
...respective degree of appeal. Readings based on analysis—a summary of the narrative thread or a pinpointing of the poem’s speaker, for instance—are as important as emotionally subjective reactions. Both are more difficult (the former to produce, the latter to explain) in contemporary poetry than, say, in a Shakespearean sonnet. This isn’t to say that Shakespeare isn’t complex, or less complex than contemporary lyric poems. It is that the difficulties of poetry have spread from the depth of the emotion expressed into the poem?...
Your attending physician, clearly harried and overworked by the usual Saturday night clientele, made no bones about the fact that she had no time for me. She sent me away to Mount Auburn Hospital with only the explanation that she was too busy to tend to me (rather than explain that UHS did not have CT scans and I needed one for my head). At the hospital, I had to wait five hours for my head to be sewn up, but there was none of the attitude that had characterized my time at UHS. No recriminations, no doubting, no judgment...
...players: diet, exercise and your genes. The less you move (calories out) and the more you eat (calories in), the more fat you gain - an equation that may be heavily influenced by your particular genes. But scientists have long known that these three factors do not adequately explain every case of obesity, and now researchers are discovering increasingly convincing evidence of another important contributor to body weight, one that until recently has been almost completely ignored: the bacteria that live in your...
...sure, of course. I mean, I asked them to explain. When I first saw them perform and they had the flaming machetes, I was a little taken aback, and it certainly conformed to them and the image that they were from the ’hood, Puerto Rican, and America’s worst nightmare. When I first met them, I thought the flaming machetes were a little over the top. But as I got to know them, I realized that these men were just really funny and that they’re good showmen and they?...