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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Graffiti could have presented a too-easy picture of bygone days, showing off about detail, dressing up the present in period costume while having nothing to say, like so many other "nostalgia" films. Instead, when this movie gives us manners, culture and seemingly superficial trends, it does so with a sense of history that is key to the attitudes of the characters involved. In 1962, a generation was desperate and restless, bursting out of its skin. As it began to define itself against the constant background of radio and TV, a get-up-and-go, frontier mentality built...
This is Sagan's space litany, presented in The Cosmic Connection. Readers who would like more detail could do worse than begin with the 39 mini-essays in the book. Sagan's purpose is nothing less than to refocus man's perspective about his place in the chain of being. Astronauts' bootprints left on the moon stir his imagination like "contemporary ziggurats," places "where the gods came down to earth and the population as a whole transcended everyday life." For him, the U.S. space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel...
...trying to accommodate as many interests as possible, and we plan to be talking to everyone in more detail before making any final decisions," Moulton said. "I hate to be too optimistic, but in the next few weeks we should have and answer...
...revised bus schedule will be officially released on Thursday as part of the report of the Committee on Crime. Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration and committee chairman, declined yesterday to detail the group's findings until after their publication...
...much greater for research and consulting than for teaching. If the graduate student malaise referred to in the second paragraph is to be relieved, a new system of incentives must be developed which will encourage good teaching and close faculty-student contacts. I do not have space to detail my suggestions, but I think that movement along these lines will be more fruitful than simply hiring four (or more) politically radical economists...