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32-Rocky Mount N.C Telegram Oct. 12, 1975 Latest James Jones Book The Growing Mind A REVIEW BY PATTIE LAMBERT Books At'Braswell World War Days detaOs. It is essential to the organization, flexibility, and progress of thought According to the pioneer Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, a child develops the ability to make certain intellectual connections in a fixed sequence based on age and experience. Only as he approaches his teens does- a youngster become successful ways to assure retention. All humans learn by con- ditioning and by forming concepts, and all make use of memory for the storage and retrieval of necessary in- formation.

But, Lee Edson points out- what they learn, what they remember, and why -and how they go about- solving problems varies from cultureto culture. values and traditions of each society imparted almost, from the -moment of birth. Although we learn different things in a highly technological society and in a primitive agricultural society, there is no evidence that a primitive child is inherently-capable of less learning, only that the culture determines how; and how much he will learn. The author, a former program manager at Stanford. Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, is now a journalist specializing in-sdence and medicine.

His work 'capable of handling abstract concepts, hypotheses, and theories. It is this ability to perceive concepts, to widen them, to modify them, to refind them, that constitutes intellectual growth or learning. Learning of any kind would be impossible without our retention system memory. Human memory divides into three parts: Sensory memory, the "remembered sight or sound or scent; motor-skill memory, the ability to perform a task or play a sport after years of non-practice; and verbal memory, which includes- words, ideas, ana concepts, verbal memory BY PATTIE (Books listed hero art -available from Bras well Memorial Library. Public library patfiJns who have been seeking a novel which combines strong action with strong compassion will find all this and more in "Cry Macho," by N.

Richard Nash. The story is 1 marked 1 by vividly drawn action: A rodeo, an illegal cockfight, a bus trip over mountain roads with a drunken driver, the pursuit by armed patrols, a border shoot-; out, and the roping 'of wild mustangs on a desolate mesa by moonlight. This book is equally' marked by feeling: Between man and boy, and man and woman, for it is the story of the meaning of love and the lack of meaning of "macho." Gothic fans will enjoy "A Bride for Hampton House," by Hillary Waugh. When a brilliant young Amazon explorer, missing tor two years, comes safely home -only to- die-in- a Senseless car crash, no one could quite believe it Corrie Haynes, a young newspaperwoman, is not impressed by the irony of it To get the real facts, she needs to get inside the explorer's-wealthy family- to gain access their imposing rambling mansion called Hampton House. Theirs is a tight circle of suspicion, fears, falsehoods, dark is in itself fdivided4ntorfchasappearedin "The New York JONES Eternity' and continued In 'The Thin Ked he says term me teiepnone number Times Magazine," remembered only until dialed and "Scientific American." and the long-term, the material Minever forgotten.

Lee Edson As a reference tool on the discusses all i the current subject of learning, the, theories on how memory func- index in "How We Learn" adds tions, and he includes the most considerably to its value. 5 By PHIL THOMAS AP Books Editor NEW VORK (AP) About a month before James Jones' three-year hitch in the army was due to run out, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Instead of i going home in January, 1942 as planned, Jones found himself fighting on Guadalcanal, getting wounded, and spending nearly six years in the army before getting his discharge in 1944. Much of what Jones saw and felt during those violent years appears in his latest book, "WW a large, lavishly illustrated account of the American fighting man in the Second. World War told by a man who, was in battle himself and.

remembers combat as being tnDii VnnVa nrnhnhlv more afraldpf being a coward than of being in combat, so you keep on doing what you have to do. If you get wounded, you get out of it, if you don't, you stay and get used to it" Jones says he spent about six months working on "WW II." "I had to do a lot of reading about the campaigns in Africa wd Europe" he say8tince I was only m.UieJ'acificrWhen I wasn't reading, I was writing, and I tried to write the book so-that if someday it were published without all of the pictures it Ms in it, the text would stand by ftself i The 53-year-old Jones, casually clad in open-neck shirt and flared slacks, says the text for "WW II" originally was sup-, posed to be about 30,000 words "but I found this a challenge, a very exciting idea and the text took off and ran to about 90,000 words. So, instead of the text emphasizing the pictures, the pictures now sort of illustrate the text." Jones' wartime experiences have served in the creation of "several of his novels. The National Book Award-winning "From Here to Eternity" tells of the peacetime U.S. Army and climaxes with the Dec.

7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Jones joined the peacetime army "I dldnt have the money to go to college and I was too lazy to work my way through so I thought I'd go adventuring. and' was stationed in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked. "I'd been on guard duty that night or I'd probably have been asleep when they hit. There was a bunch of us in the mess when we heard rumbling.

We went' outside and there, were columns pf smoke going up about a mile away. Then a Japanese plane came over, strafing up the street. He was quite low and he waved at us, waved and grinned. Then he Reed Bel Air Chevrolet Co. 301 Bypass North "How We Learn," by Lee Edson and the eds.

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The ability to learn is not an exclusive characteristic of the human race, but only humans have the unique ability to acquire S'r and 1 preserve knowledge and to pass it from one generation to the next (On the other hand, a man studied for a who long period of time discovered that one female raccoon learned that food would be brought out if she pulled, on a JteJl-rope, and this knowledge was passed down through sevargeneratiomrof female racoons. Still, this is more a kind of "monkey see, money In "How We Learn," the fourth volume in the Time-Life Books series, "Human Behavior," author Lee Edson explores how man, born with few innate abilities, learns the skills and behavior that "make a human being human." One form of learning, imposed on the individual from the outside, is conditioned First understood by Pavlov, in his classic experiments in which dogs, learning that food appered immediately after the ring of bell by Pavlov, began to salivate at the sound of the bell alone psychogists have since proved that behavior is shaped by reinforcement The child earns to act in socially desirable ways by the reward- "ciu uu his behavior. learning, from the simplest idea of, for instance, "chair" to such abstractions as enables people to grasp similarities between things and ignore irrelevant -Rione 446-2117 5035 "I've had this trilogy conceptto.a,e"ade'fr?m THE DOSS RETURNS IN 5 DAYS BUY NOV AND SAVE in my mind tor 30 vears. So when I do finish 'Whistle' I think I'm just gonna go out and sit on the porch for a is published by Grosset Dunlap.) -ir -n CHEVY SPECIAL Elia Kazan's "The Under- study" is his most personal work so far. Because so many of 1 the characters are but of.

the world of theater and film, some people- may be tempted to wonder who they might be based oil Kazan himself says the characters are based except for one--on a living-person. Each, including men and women, are different facets of The most important character, Sidney SchTossberg, is based on a real person who is now dead; this is Clifford Odets. Mary McMullen's "A Country Kind of Death" will intrigue mystery fans. A seven-year-old' girl with a wild imagination writes a simple bit of a story: "And she The fish swam through her hair and 1974 VEGA' 2 Dmt Whh, 4 Cyfladw; IngiM, 4, SftU TrMit-flwi, Fatttry Air CoMlitiMtd, Mailt. REGULAR PRICE $2995 $2475 1971 PONTIAC CataliM 4 Daw Stan, IngiM, AirtMMtk Trawni.

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"It's the last in a trilogy that started with 'From Here to Gen. Winfield Scott. (1786-1866), who led an army into Mexico in 1847 during the Mexican War, was known to his troops as old "Fuss and Feathers" because of being a stickler, for military procedure. 4 The nickname was used affectionately by Scott's friends. doz.

we have your UPES LAMBERT toe bard-handed detective who 'hunts the hunters and settles-things in the courts or on the streets; the compassionate -Family Court Judge whose hands are tied by the in- -difference of those around her; ,1 a small-time Mafia hood whose-life and death are brilliantly told in a coroner's report; and more. This is a true account of those who live oo the edge between life and death. "I don't believe in the curse of the pharaohs," said Dr. Ganuu Mehrez, director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, in an interview Philipp Van-denberg, author of "The Curse of the Pharaohs." Four weeks later, when Tutankhamen's, golden mask was being readied for a trip to London, Mehrez died on the very same day from circulatory collapse. His was only the.

latest in a series of more than thirty, deaths of. researchers and archaeologists who have excavated invEgypt since 1900. "The Curse of the Pharaohs" is an tnfnrmntivp hnnk whlrh concludes that the Egyptians knew manv thines that we still knew many things that we still do. not. The world knew him as a film actor and star but Edward G.

Robinson had another claim to fame; He owned one of the most distinguished collections' of French Impressionist paintings in private hands. In "Edward G. Robinson's Works of Art," many of these works are reproduced for the first Through the text, written by Robinson's wife, Jane and' a close friend, -playwright Leonard Spigelgass, Edward Robinson is revealed in the role- he loved best a discerning and discriminating patron of The arts. Other' new non-fiction: "Twilight of Authority, by Robert Nisbet; "The Inner World of "Day-Dreaming," by Jerome L. Singer; "The Vic- torians at Home and at Work; as Illustrated by by Hilary Evans; "Etchings ind Engraving," by Walter Chamberlain; "Children and Money; a Parent's Guide," by Grace W.

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