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Our social skills are already being honed in childhood and early adolescence, when we quickly become very adept at forming and breaking alliances within and between groups and spend much of our time engaged in complex social interactions.
In her words, “Besides rendering a Chicano pinto presence in the rhythms of speech, Santana [the movie character] represents it in the stylized walk and prose of a pinto, a stance honed in the corridors behind prison walls or in the barrios of East L.A.” (1993, 130).
That role was honed to perfection by Gil Evans in his collaborations with trumpet-player Miles Davis between 1957 and 1968--an often-misunderstood body of work chronicled in a six-CD box set called Miles Davis and Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Recordings , released this month.
We have found no evidence that such a long-term political-military approach for using Special Operations Forces in the region was proposed to or analyzed by the Small Group, even though such capability had been honed for at least a decade within the Defense Department.
And why do those pictures always feel as if they've been honed with the help of focus groups in suburban shopping malls to ensure that no aspect will be jarring to the middlest of middle-class viewers?