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Harvard's facilities for nuclear research date back quite a while. Before the Second World War, the University owned a small, constant frequency cyclotron ("the only kind available at that time," says William M. Preston, director of the current cyclotron laboratory). During wartime, however, this machine was appropriated by the government and taken out to Los Alamos for use in the experiments that led to the atomic bomb...
...secured a man to replace me as early as last May. It was his sudden decision not to coach, made just before Registration, which caused the current difficulty, and not any indifference on the part of the Department of Athletics...
...learn the lesson of creative love and thereby avert suicide in another great war, Sorokin urges, a new form of Western culture, built on a stronger and more durable foundation, will emerge phoenix-like from the ashes left by the he notes, self-interest and altruism dictate the same current conflagration. For the first time in history, policy. Love or perish--the choices for Western man are limited...
...Better. What sells best all over the world are the finest pieces in top condition. "It's easier to sell what I'd call a blue chip in antiques even at a high price than a cheaper, less satisfactory one," says Samuels. Almost every item in the current French & Co. exhibition is worth 20% to 50% more than it cost at purchase; some have appreciated four and five times their cost...
...This current pop hit perfectly describes the view of man held by a new school of novelistless writers. From Cervantes to Hemingway, storytellers have assumed that man has hopes and aspirations, and that they could be expressed meaningfully. Bosh, says the new school. Man is a blob, creeping and leaping about a world he cannot control, his words meaningless or hypocritical or both. The best thing a novelist can do, the argument runs, is to ditch the novel as it is now known and write a new kind that shows man as the pitiable blob he is. Two new books...