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Massachusetts
Charles Dickens’ American Tour
We are looking for an industrial town near Boston where Charles Dickens traveled in his maiden America trip to see the conditions of women mill workers.
An Inuit Dialect, a Grammar for Cities, and Zappa’s Lyrics
Podcast: Almost no place on earth is remote any more, as a linguist discovers when he spends a year in an Inuit village.
Slipping in out of foreign tongues with Sherard Cowper-Coles and Yang Ying
Should diplomats learn the languages of the countries they’re assigned to? And how easy is it to learn a foreign musical language?
Mousavi’s Recommendation Makes “News of a Kidnapping” a Hit in Tehran
Mousavi likened his detention conditions to those described in the book.
Does Banning Bilingual Education Change Anything?
In this week’s World in Words podcast, what happens after a state bans bilingual education? And toilet talk with a US vs UK English expert.
Salt from Mexico
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In the Geo Quiz, we’re looking for a Mexican island where a lot of industrial sea-salt is processed. This island is in the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. The place got its name from Spanish explorers who mistakenly thought the island’s trees were cedars…Download MP3Video: unloading salt in Massachusetts
Helping Japan from Massachusetts
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Katy Clark visits Amos Lawrence Elementary School in Brookline, Massachusetts, which has a large Japanese student population. Since last week’s earthquake, parents and students have been raising money and folding paper cranes to show their support for friends and family in Japan. Download MP3
Cemetery gates cross the Atlantic
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Gates that once stood at the entrance of a Jewish cemetery in Germany for 100 years, now mark the entrance to a cemetery in a small western Massachusetts town. From WFCR in Amherst, Jill Kaufman has the story of their journey to the United States. Download MP3
Freud in Massachusetts
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100 years ago, Sigmund Freud made his first and only trip to the United States to deliver a series of lectures on psychoanalysis at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Jeb Sharp talks to Clark University archivst Mott Linn about the historic visit. Pictured at Clark University in 1909 are, from left (front): Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; (back) A.A. Brill, Ernest Jones, and Sandor Ferenczi. (Photo courtesy Clark University) “In Europe I felt as though I were despised, but at Clark I found myself received by the foremost of men as an equal.” -from Freud’s autobiography
When Freud went to Worcester
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Download MP3100 years ago this weekend, Sigmund Freud made his first and only trip to the United States to deliver a series of lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Anchor Jeb Sharp talks to Clark University archivist Mott Linn about the visit.
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Pictured at Clark University in 1909 are, from left (front): Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; (back) A.A. Brill, Ernest Jones, and Sandor Ferenczi. (Photo courtesy Clark University)
Aurelia’s Oratorio
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A theater performance with few words, magic, and global appeal. It’s called “Aurelia’s Oratorio.” Since 2003, it’s been staged — and well-received — all over the world. Now it’s showing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The World’s Adeline Sire spoke to the French star and co-creator of “Aurelia’s Oratorio.”
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