![]() ![]() An oral history of historian Leopold, Ph.D. Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. ![]() The Starch professor of psychology emeritus wades into the “empirically lean and theoretically contentious understanding of emotion-al phenomena” and finds himself “adopt a skeptical stance toward the existence of a small set of basic emotions.” Kagan writes, “Poets possess the license to use a predicate any way they wish,” but this is very much a scientist’s book. What Is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meanings, by Jerome Kagan ( Yale, $27.50). And I think I know where I’ll find the time.” Reflecting on airport security lines in 2002 (“…the major war effort imposed on civilians…”), he finds a “need to think about it for a few more hours. The writer of opinions ( The New Republic, Slate, Los Angeles Times, etc., and now Time) collects samples from the past dozen years. ![]() Please Don’t Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries, by Michael Kinsley ’72, J.D. Kissinger are among the Harvardians depicted. ![]() Badge’s eloquent black-and-white portraits of some 270 laureates, with accompanying brief narratives by Chris Richmond poet Seamus Heaney, biologist Walter Gilbert, chemists Elias J. Nobel Faces: A Gallery of Nobel Prize Winners, by Peter Badge ( Wiley-Blackwell, $95). ![]()
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