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...Book, is a parable of the nuclear age. Two peoples, the Yooks and the Zooks, find themselves in such fierce-and pointless-confrontation that each is ready to drop the fatal Bitsy Big-Boy Bomberoo on the other. They are very similar, these Yooks and Zooks. They seem to differ in only one way: one side takes its bread butter-side up, the other butter-side down. Yooks, Zooks. East, West. Butter-side up, butter-side down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Moral Equivalent of... | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...good company of an entirely differ ent nature is the Groundlings, a home grown group that does improvisational comedy in a tiny Hollywood theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bold, Visual, Spectacular | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...frequent mystery is how to connect the machines to television sets and antennas. Owners must often pick their way through mazes of diagrams and technical terms like "One-touch type F connector" that seem to have been written for licensed electricians. Some manuals compound the confusion with illustrations that differ from the actual machine. Notes the 46-page booklet for a Panasonic OmniVision model: "Please be assured that this difference is not due to mistake but to ongoing product improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does This #%*@! Thing Work? Instruction Manuals | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Harvard's counseling services appear to be attempting to practice what the administration preaches. The Office of Career Service's "Guide For Pre-Medical Students" stresses that medical schools "do not require that applicants major in science." Extensive counseling services are available in each House. While the advising systems differ in structure (some Houses utilize pre-medical committees, others rely on individual advisors for students, for example) students say they are generally efficient and satisfactory--their message that a non-science major is acceptable is clear. "Medical schools, it seems really don't care whether you major in science...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Making med school easier to swallow | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...much they actually differ, not even Warner and Rauch agree on that. "We support each other, we talk a lot, but we have a very different aesthetic," Rauch says. Warner is less certain: "We have the same mind in a lot of ways, it's just that our approaches are different...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: The two masks of Harvard drama | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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