A study examined the different strategies used by speakers of Egyptian Arabic to ward off the potential effects of the evil eye, specifically the responding strategies to compliments perceived as invocations of evil as it relates to the gender of the recipient of the compliment and the social context in which the compliment takes place. Social…

Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1. (DD)

Article describes the Ethnic Studies Center of the Richmond Public Schools, which was established by the funding of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Emergency School Assistance Program. (GB)

Paper considers some of the problems facing the researcher interested in patterns of abilities as revealed by a discussion of the Lesser studues (1971), presentation of reanalyses of their data, and a critical review of the research. (Author/CB)

Presents a personalized account of cross-cultural communication and its problems through the experiences of an individual born in Korea, raised in Japan, and attending college in Canada. (RB)

Expanded version of a lecture delivered in May 1971 at the Padagogische Hochschule in Braunschweig, West Germany. (WB)

Extensive list of differences between German and American cultural patterns. (DS)

Earlier version of this article read at the Conference on Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Cultures, Mona, Jamaica, April 2-4, 1970. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Charges that the field of sociology fails: (i) to emphasize the common characteristics of deviants and nondeviants; (ii) to give due attention to undramatic" forms of deviance; and, (iii) to explore the role of power in defining deviance." (JM)

Author, a sociologist, suggests that schools have tended to neglect some of the things that are most important in everyday life. (Editor/MB)