Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Protesting his final exile to St. Helena, Napoleon declared: "I appeal to history." Last week a guide in Napoleon's birthplace in Ajaccio, taking some liberties with that history, described a movable plank in the floor as "the trap door through which Napoleon had to escape from his admirers when he returned from Egypt." One visitor pointed out that on an earlier visit he had been told Napoleon had used the trap door to escape his enemies, who burned down the house. The guide agreed. "Yes, that's what we used to say, but they've changed...
...Innovation. When it comes to programming, ABC traditionally has been the most innovative. The network was largely responsible for the flowering of mass-cast detective stories, freaky comedy characters, and programs tailored to appeal primarily to the under-30 set. This fall, ABC is introducing the idea of 45-minute shows aimed at the young. Based on Billboard magazine's hot-record charts, radio's Hit Parade will be turned into a new pop-music show, The Music Scene. Then, before viewers switch their dials, The New People will strand a planeload of youngsters on an abandoned Pacific...
...Strain is more than just a biological tug-of-war, though. To judge by Crichton's example, the role that the clipper ship used to play in 19th century fiction now is handled by the space program (both novelistically and cinematically, for Kubrick's 2001 held much the same appeal). Where Melville and Dana used to fascinate their readers with descriptions of rigging and trade routes, Crichton delivers mini-lectures on space research, micro-biology, and biochemistry. Meanwhile, names like Wald and DeBakey weave in and out of the narrative. Most of this material is, of course, quite elementary; some...
This novel's other basic appeal is much more telling. The Andromeda Strain is not really science-fiction in any strict sense. The "science" it treats is too commonplace--even if sophisticated--and it isn't really that speculative. Instead, this book represents a kind of "government-fiction"--the most recent development in the genre of the Washington Novel...
...Shady Hill site, like the neighborhood around it, is now mostly zoned for one-family residential housing: the University will have to get approval from the City's Planning Board. Board of Zoning Appeal and the City Council to build the 300 units there...