becoming linguist support gilbert thesis sure one stimulus growing university campus lots foreignborn faculty one heard saw lot different languages people houses bookcases refrigerators like pickle jar saw labelled polish another certainly movie day earth stood still michael rennie playing klaatu communicate robot gort home language indeed patricia neal playing mrs benson memorize sentence language repeat gort save world toward film end third stimulus majoring science college chemistry strong focus concepts structure finally one actually discover linguistics nt kind thing one heard college 60s nice one could something language without exclusively historically oriented without worry say kind apple hurled thorax gregor samsa class basis textual evidence golden delicious apple represent disapproval franz k dad