Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga (Beacon Press) is the classic study of the importance of play to understanding our greatest cultural achievements.
That the process of understanding play should neglect to include the children's perspective is anathema to the very reasons that play is important.
However, recent studies show the important role that anterior parts of the brain plays in the process of understanding complex grammatical structures.
After two hours of extracting long-lost French from my brain, I figured I might have a fighting chance of understanding the play, especially since I'd read it in high school.
Zoos have played their part in the bridge of understanding between us and the rest of creation.
According to his aesthetic theory, we judge objects to be beautiful not because they gratify our desires, since aesthetic judgments are disinterested, but rather because apprehending their form stimulates what he calls the harmonious "free play" of our understanding and imagination, in which we take a distinctively aesthetic pleasure (5:217 218, 287–287, 287).
And then it became more layered, because it became apparent to me that you couldn't make a true record of the play without understanding the parallel story, the semi-camouflaged story of Sam and his father.
"You can absorb the world of the play without understanding every sentence," she said, arguing that the story "goes on enough of an emotional journey that I don't think the language is ever a barrier".
Different forms of musical notation have arisen, each one being more adequate to specific forms of playing, understanding and composing music [54].
The results for prediction of carcinogenesis, taken together with the previous successful applications of predicting mutagenicity in nitroaromatic compounds, and inhibition of angiogenesis by suramin analogues, show that Progol has a role to play in understanding the SARs of cancer-related compounds.
