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...story itself is a highly romanticized recount of a strike and bust at a place called Western, but it is understood that the location is Columbia. Horovitz, of course, got the idea for the movie from James Kunen's book about the Columbia Strike. He went on to construct his own fanciful plot. The center of attention is a crew jock, nice boy though, who becomes "radicalized" during the strike. He endures taunts and even a bloody nose from his friends, some of whom he radicalizes in turn...
...campus had its price, no doubt, but it also had its rewards, not the least of which was the chance to grow at our own pace and to pursue, with no guilt whatsoever, the totally irrelevant. "If we had the last of the wine, the time when you could construct your own cubicle, then we were lucky," says television's Dick Cavett, 33. "I look back now on my college days as a time of fantastic luxury." Above all, we were the last generation to accept without question-or to pretend to accept-the traditional American values of work...
...living in the City, Seventy years ago, what they've set up could have passed for myopic. No one could have been expected to fore-see the horrors that would develop from the humble beginnings. But now, in 1970, only someone who has never been to New York could construct such a vision of dreams-come true. I would have set up an exhibit pretty much like it five years ago, from my dreams of the East before I got here...
Instead, Harvard is seeking to build between 90 and 100 low-cost units elsewhere in Riverside, and will construct them "just as soon as possible," Nickerson announced. The University has already committed itself to 94 such units for elderly people there, he said...
...very obvious question: What gives the bicycle its extraordinary stability? Properly curious, a British research chemist named David E.H. Jones decided to do a little backyard experimenting. His plan: to identify the bicycle's essential stabilizing features by building one that completely lacked them. In short, he would construct a totally unridable bicycle...