As late as his midtwenties—that is, not late at all as these things go—Philip Larkin was still feeling his way into his poetic identity. As is often the case, the process involved an imitating of adored models, first and, to put it charitably, not very well, of Auden: There is no language of destruction for The use of the chaotic; silence the only Path for those hysterical and lonely. That upright beauty cannot banish fear, Or wishing help the weak to gain the fair Is reason for it: that the skilled event, Gaining applause, cannot a death prevent, Short-circuits impotent who travel far. –From “There is no language of destruction” (1940) Then, and to little if any better effect, of...
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Vocabulary is one of five fundamental parts of structured literacy. As Gough and Tunmer’s ‘Simple View of Reading’ illustrates, it is as important for students to develop vocabulary knowledge as it is for them learn how to decode words. Combining a student’s ability to decode with a robust vocabulary leads to increased comprehension. Emily Hanford notes in her article APM Reports: At a Loss for Words: “This comes straight from the scientific research, which shows that reading comprehension is the product of two things. First a child needs to be able to sound out a word. Second, the child needs to know the meaning of the word she just sounded out. So, in a first-grade classroom that’s following the research,...
IRVINE — Trevor Zegras laughed, the sort of response young people often make when they can’t begin to fathom something so far beyond their comprehension. Mason McTavish didn’t laugh, but he did smile and shake his head, almost as if he had difficulty processing the information. Two of the youngest Ducks each said they had trouble imagining the milestone their eldest teammate was on the verge of reaching. Ryan Getzlaf, the Ducks’ longtime captain, is one point shy of 1,000 for his career, having already broken the franchise scoring record earlier this season. “It’s a lot of points. It’s a lot of points,” said Zegras, a 20-year-old rookie center, repeating himself for emphasis after Getzlaf notched his 998th and 999th...
In his classic 1954 work, The Gift, the anthropologist Marcel Mauss described an unusual practice of gift-giving in the Māori people. People who didn’t reciprocate gifts were believed to be vulnerable to illness — and possibly death. In this way, rituals of giving and receiving were linked with beliefs about sickness, giving disease a central position in cultural interactions. In modern western society, by contrast, many people view infections only as biological threats to health and wellbeing rather than essential elements of belief and cultural change. Some people expect that outbreaks of novel infectious disease are something humans periodically just need to deal with. But disease isn’t just a threat to our lives, as the Māori example indicates. It’s an...
