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After 10 years in the real world of New York's glamorous literary scene, author James Atlas '71 returned last night to the scene of his first best-selling novel, "The Great Pretender...
After giving a speech at the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, Atlas reflected on how far he has come in the past 15 years. Atlas, who worked for The Advocate and The Crimson while at Harvard, set his novel--which has won kudos from the literary world--in Harvard of the late 1960s. Atlas's book details the frustration and confusion of youth in the 1960s. The semiautobiographical tale is told through the eyes of a budding author, whose life is shadowed by his Jewish-Chicago past...
Garbed in a newly-acquired suit, Atlas last night bridged the world of the literary elite and Harvard. Atlas, who after graduation went to Oxford for two years on a Rhodes scholarship, has recently accepted an editorial position with the New York Times Magazine and says that the litertary life is nothing like what he expected as an undergraduate...
When the shuttle Challenger exploded off Florida 19 months ago, U.S. space policy also went up in smoke. A series of unsuccessful launchings, including the loss of an Atlas-Centaur rocket fired into a lightning storm last March, has further devastated the space program and left it floundering. In a 63-page report prepared for NASA and released last week, Astronaut Sally Ride attempts to set the agency back on track. She argues for an "evolutionary" policy with diverse objectives, rather than a splashy, one-goal venture. Writes Ride, who was the first American woman in space: "It would...
...Democrats encounter another problem, however, as they do their Atlas act to impress independent-minded voters. The candidates must also appeal to party loyalists who dominate the nomination contest. These activists in most Northern states lean leftward -- feminine as Caddell has defined it -- and pressure national candidates to toe their issue lines. The result can turn muscle to flab...