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...bald head swiveling toward the busy, colored TV screen behind him. His lot, his crew, his disciples, his clones, who dressed as he did, smoked the same Marlboros and found in these entertainments a common ground between the fan clubs of childhood and the Promised Land of the intellect toward which Ravelstein, their Moses and their Socrates, led them...
...maternal instinct, "modern woman"--with her contraception, abortion rights, career and nanny--can only be a pitiful freak. Mid-20th century Freudians urged women to put aside ambition and masochistically (their word) submit to the maternal instinct. In the 19th century, gynecologists warned that any use of the female intellect--from novel reading to higher education--could foreclose motherhood by causing the uterus to, quite literally, wither away. Happiness was a full womb and a vacant mind...
...FAMILY Convinced that you and your dog should be on better speaking terms? Well, you can get there with a little practice. In his new book, How to Speak Dog, Stanley Coren claims that a dog has the intellect and vocabulary of a two-year-old child--but humans must learn to interpret their canine's nonverbal noises, tail wags and other body language. A sample: for dogs, a yawn is not a sign of fatigue but of anxiety. And each of those wags can tell a variety of stories, depending on posture and pace. More about Coren's theories...
...Heard: “But it really is art. You can’t pay any attention to the materialistic constructions of mainstream society. Didn’t you come to Harvard to protest the suppression of creative intellect...
...Never of an ordinary bent, her intellect was always finding fresh combinations and original perspectives," said John D. Stewart, senior preceptor in music, who knew Vosgerchian for over 30 years. "It was endlessly exciting and rewarding to have such a friend, a conversationalist of great artistry. I cannot possibly express how deeply I will miss that...