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Movies, TV shows, plays and memoirs will eventually construct a mythic reality around the American experience in Viet Nam. World War I's catastrophic trench warfare, which nearly wiped out a generation of England's best and brightest men (France's and Germany's as well), was so utterly new and unfamiliar that a highly literate assemblage spent the next decade, at least, formulating a conception of what it had all been about. Something of the same process is occurring regarding Viet...
Graham said the problem has existed "for years," but officials were especially concerned now because the city plans to construct a new playground--the Riverside Press Project--this summer on Memorial Drive...
...zamboni of the mind is now at work. The magic machine that sweeps away the refuse of what's transpired and lays clear the glassy sparkle of what's to ensue now attempts to construct a state of Harvard hockey that is positive and justified...
...another well-attended discussion, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Secretary of Energy, said New Englanders need to expand off-shore oil exploration, construct refineries and develop alternative energy sources such as hydroelectric power and nuclear fission...
Einstein, however, was determined to go his own way. Despite criticism he spent much of the second half of his life pursuing the development of what scientists call a unified field theory. In Einstein's time, this meant an all encompassing mathematical construct that would unite under a single set of equations not only gravity but also electromagnetism. Since then the task has become even more difficult, with the discovery of two other basic forces: the nuclear forces. Most