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...catastrophe of Babel, pours the world directly into the mind and provides it with an intense, though passive, planetary public life. The consciousness teems with wars and disasters and space shots and pageants. It has become difficult for the solitary writer wringing his psyche over the Smith-Corona to compete with all that bounces down from the satellite. Besides, reality in the late 20th century is somehow more inventive than the literary imagination Its plots (Jonestown, for example) are weirdly fertile, fatally ingenious. The idly speculative Connolly list, in any case, is Premature. It requires death and time to complete...
...been any Harvard undergraduate by that description. I was going through a me of passage, that final but of creative torture, left until the last minute. When the only thing that keeps you going is the thought that at least next week's exams won't require a Smith Corona or footnotes. I could have been John Q Doe '49 or Jane Smith '68 or probably even Kimberly Jones...
...Downer, 24, maintains that his Osborne computer did not give him an edge, but admits: "It could become the 20th century equivalent of a note on the shirt cuff." Bowing to the law school's dictum, Downer will be writing his second-semester exams on a portable Smith-Corona. But he is sure the computer will be admitted eventually. Says he: "It's just a question of time...
Allis-Chalmers to lay off 1,300 in Missouri . . . Smith-Corona to suspend output at three plants employing 3,450 . . . Pennzoil to shut down all its copper and molybdenum operations...
John Kohl, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory, has designed an ultraviolet coronograph for the space shuttle that will take advantage of Columbia's position above the earth's atmosphere. A coronograph is a telescope engineered specifically for observing the corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun, by blocking the light of the sun's disk. The corona, an area of extremely low density and high temperature, can be most clearly observed naturally during a solar eclipse. Kohl's coronograph would pick up the ultraviolet light emitted by the corona and analyse it to reveal the density and velocity...