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...stroll onto stage was met with a deserved crescendo of shouting. But without a word he turned down the mood by launching into a slew of downers, from the old surreal folkie “Pay No Mind” to the new love lament, “Guess I’m Doing Fine.” Perched on a stool in a bland shirt and tie, Beck shunned the goofiness that waxed falsetto on Axl Rose and tossed out two-dollar quips during this summer’s solo tour. Instead, he seemed muted by the mature, dour...
Ideal mate: Tall, athletic and funny. And I guess cute would be nice...
Anyone who has read Pinker's earlier books--including How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct--will rightly guess that his latest effort is similarly sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, richly footnoted and fun to read. It's also highly persuasive. The view that environment is paramount began, he says, with the philosophers of the Enlightenment: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rene Descartes and John Stuart Mill. And it was reinforced in the 1950s by Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner, who said that all human behavior was simply a set of conditioned responses...
...have the parental guidance necessary to help him grow up. As someone born during the Great Depression, I never had the luxury of trying to "find myself." I knew exactly where I was--in deep trouble, and I had to dig my way out. I guess I had a better start than Lindh did. GEORGE GLAWE Medina, Ohio...
...have no control over what I'm offered, but I guess I have some control over what I've accepted. I try to stay with things that I feel a little bit of comfort with or grew up with. I guess I will never be offered a part as a ballet teacher, and if I am, I hope I have the good sense not to take...