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Harsh But Effective. Almost unnoticed in the vitriolic debate over the Viet Nam war and the U.S. presence on the Asian mainland is the U.S. responsibility for these sprawling islands. Their 95,000 inhabitants range from the brainy and enterprising Palauans of the Carolines chain to the grass-skirted inhabitants...
The book restates McLuhan's increasingly familiar argument: the introduction of the alphabet 3,000 years ago, abetted by Gutenberg's introduction of movable print in the 15th century, turned mankind into the alphas and omegas of a giant cultural alphabet soup. The "seamless" and communal thought processes...
Rembrandt's The Rape of Europa, painted in 1632, beautifully exemplifies the powerful Baroque dramatization, the juxtaposition of rich golden browns with cool tones of blue, and the intricate articulation of the detail which characterize the mythological paintings of his early years. The rest of the Rembrandts are mediocre at...
"The Bomb," an abstracted menace, to be sure, is close as Flanders & Swann come to confronting the sixties; it is not terribly unlike "The Ostrich," in a fable from their own bestiary, who cools his head in the sand while the world goes to the devil. This is not to...
Apart from the problem of translation, the technology of bibliographic control in scientific fields is already a reality. A leader in the field is the National Library of Health in Bethesda, Md., which tries to acquire every publication relating to medicine. Librarians feed selected references from articles in 2,400...