Susan L. Schwartz Haverhill, Mass., Jan . 2 2008 To the Editor: I was fascinated to read that Japan is now imitating education in India but dismayed to learn what is being imitated: memorization, cramming and attempting to teach anything and everything at ever earlier ages ("Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy India's Schools," front page, Jan . 2.
There are no known Huari or Tiahuanaco pieces which show an attempt to imitate the actual Chavin manner, like the attempt made by the Moche potters.
And even William James recognized that "just as an artificially imitated sneeze lacks something of the reality, so the attempt to imitate an emotion in the absence of its normal instigating cause is apt to be rather 'hollow.' " With feigned laughter, the "hollowness" appears to have a neurological basis.
An account of some attempts to imitate the effects of the Torpedo by electricity.
Foreman discerned the wide variety of behaviors available for emulation, especially after his first attempts to imitate McDuffy failed.
We described, for example, the socle, which attempts to imitate marble incrustation in paint, which of course makes reference to the First Style of Roman wall painting.
His last fall collection mocked Perestroika-era dress - its awkward, almost touching attempts at imitating Western style with clothes bought on the black market.
After trying and failing to make it as a musician in Beijing, he abandoned his attempts to imitate Western rock and returned to Dongbei in the late nineties.
In this model, each newborn attempts to imitate the most highly skilled individual of the parental generation by directly-biased social learning, but the skill level he/she acquires deviates probabilistically from that of the exemplar (cultural parent).
Attempts to imitate its armament and methods were made right down to the 16th century, and even today some countries still call their forces legions in commemoration of its prowess.
In the Middle Ages a further feature was added: the understanding of the devil as the "ape of God," who attempts to imitate God through spurious, malicious creations that he interpolates for, or opposes to, the divine creations.
