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Mead's design, which he calls the "inverse SST," is a study in the principles of low-speed aeronautics. Work in this field, according to Mead, is more challenging in a lot of ways than work on the "other" SST, since "you can make anything, even a brick, fly by giving it a lot of power...
...politest eating place this side of the Window Shop. It resembles the kind of homecooking enterprise that Dale Evans would launch if she and Roy moved to Cambridge. Not that the ambience is pseudo spurs-n-saddles. On the contrary, the decor is functional suburban, with its variegated red-brick walls left completely bare. Those huge blocks of lumber around the store-front so far as I could make out are there either to suggest the Forest of Arden or to keep the windows from being trashed...
...much more severe. There's this problem of laterization- the turning of the soil into a sort of brick-like substance. I don't know what Meselson discovered- he couldn't do much work on the ground really because they can't land in these places, it's dangerous...
From the first, kids treated Sesame Street like the yellow brick road. Its heavy stress of cooperation over competition, its amalgam of the wholly familiar and the totally exotic were irresistible. It was only grownups who expressed doubts. And who could blame them? For openers, the Street looks as if a toy truck had overturned in Harlem. There is no Disneyesque nostalgia for the inaccessible past. The place is in the unavoidable present; the clothing of the cast is well worn, the umber colors and grit of inner-city life are vital components of the show. Some other main ingredients...
This decision was the last legal brick in the "wall of separation" between church and state urged by Jefferson. History may record that, sixteen years later, the first cracks began to appear in that wall, the first major blow being struck not by the state but by he church...