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...something else piscatorial to be proud of. On an abandoned wharf once used by New England's sorely depressed fishing industry, an impressive new structure overlooks the harbor. It is the $6,500,000 concrete-and-glass home of the New England Aquarium, which has finally opened its doors after more than a decade of planning and problems. The wait was worth it. Boston's undersea museum may be the prototype aquarium of the future. At the very least, it is a stunning symbol of man's vastly increased interest...
...visitor ascends the rectangular ramps along the aquarium's walls, he passes the abodes of other amusing creatures: penguins. One species on display in the mock Antarctic environment is the so-called jackass penguin (named for its harsh bray). Proceeding upward, the visitor brushes past a large and almost frightening mural covered with life-size silhouettes of sharks. He joins the youngsters at the children's tidal pool -where they are encouraged to reach in and touch starfish, tiny crabs and harmless sea urchins. Finally, as he approaches the highest level, he walks under an awesome 35-foot...
...aquarium's most impressive feature is the giant, four-story-high cylindrical tank that sits in the center of the building. Billed as the world's largest glass-walled fish tank, it holds 200,000 gallons of sea water filled with small sharks, sea turtles, moray eels and dozens of other creatures that dodge in and out of a huge simulated reef. The visitor can peer into the tank either through a vatlike opening at the top or through the glass walls as he walks down the curving ramps that surround it. The layout is so unorthodox that...
...portray in Hair. . After two years, they still sense a faint idealism that a part in Hair is qualitatively different for an actor of our generation than another Broadway role. But the Hair people have no pretensions about being the vanguard of American youth on the eve of the Aquarium...
...colleges" for dropouts that are being established across the country. California's Midpeninsula Free University, for instance, offers no fewer than five courses in the subject: Jungian Astrology, Advanced Astrology, Out of the Aquarium and into the Aquarian, Occult Things and the New Age, and an Occult and Astrology Workshop. When the University of South Carolina recently offered Witchcraft as a non-credit voluntary course, an astounding 247 people signed up?though Professor Sidney Birnbaum expects many of them to drop out when they discover that he is going to teach only history...