Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙Families, Jane Howard Hitler's Spies, David Kahn ∙Look Who's Talking!, Emily Hahn Russian Thinkers. Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Look Who's Talking!, Emily Hahn...
From their besieged bastions, public officials sometimes glowered out at the taxpayers. "The public is ugly, the citizens are mean," declared Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. Despite the one-shot relief from the state, countless local officials remained fearful about the long-range effect. As Committee Chairman Rodda quipped, "Having rescued the state from chaos, the legislature can now proceed to address the problem of total confusion...
...Arizona, Hahn learns how not to communicate with a cat. "Because the aggressive posture of the cat is the locked-eye gaze," she is told, "cats will transfer this reaction to humans, and when the stranger says 'Hi!' a cat will, according to its nature, back away or make a threatening gesture or merely ignore." At Ringling Brothers Circus, Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams soothes his tigers with a friendly "Wuzza, wuzza, wuzza." "I have this feeling," he says, "the animal knows how nice I am when he hears me; it's not the words...
...sure? As an experienced journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker for more than 50 years, Hahn balances her enthusiasms for the unknown with a reverence for facts and, when necessary, the lack of them. "Though total silence still holds between the two species," she writes of chimps and men, "the linguistic exchanges now happening will serve to underscore the close biological relationship between the two." Still, like the upwardly mobile chimp who thought she was human, there are humans who seem more willing to believe in the possibility of communication with superior extraterrestrials than in a probability...