Alan Dundes

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.