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...Anyone like me (a 20-year-old student) who does not go to Leslie Caron's house parties could discern at once that your London cover story [April 15] was not about us. And if it was not about us -the city's total population less 200 or so 20th Century-Fox playmates-it was not about London. Cathy McGowan is not "London's favorite dolly," but London's most unloved moron. David Warner's Hamlet is popular not because some jet-set clique has deemed it "In," but because Peter Hall has concentrated...
...produce a usuable image on their film. Their painstaking labor produced tiny spectrograms that contained no color, only shadings of black and white, and were one-third of an inch long and a thousandth of an inch thick. Under the microscope, however, Sandage and Greenstein were barely able to discern strange patterns and spectral lines that had never before been observed in stellar spectra. Genuinely puzzled, Greenstein began to work out an elaborate hypothesis suggesting that the quasars were extremely dense and hot nearby objects, probably the remnants of supernovas containing highly excited or unfamiliar elements...
...Mickey Spillane's 18th book is embossed with his usual delicate imagery ("The sun was thumbing its nose at the night"), characterization ("On some people skin is skin, but on her it was an invitation to dine"), and grammar ("You lay there, kid"; "I thought I could discern shouts"). As always, the forces of law, order and decency prove no match for Spillane's private eye, whose impatience with those virtues amounts to a crusade. The people who lay around reading Spillane books-50 million copies sold to date-must discern the same message...
...nihilism is undoubtedly much less alarming than it seems. Whatever political causes the apolitical American young managed to find before have virtually disappeared-hence the concentration on the few remaining ones, such as civil rights and Viet Nam. Among the young bored by prosperity and consensus government, some observers discern a special group, the "New Puritans," who may be toting a protest placard alongside an anti-everything beatnik, but with an entirely different altitude inside...
...scope of reading, reflection and real involvement in our world that have provided the substance of Professor Altizer's views. His work is, of course, still in progress. But his perceptive judgments and forthright claims have helped to distinguish what is weak and pointless in theology, and to discern a new form of the Christian heritage adequate for the present. His work has already been of the very greatest importance to many of us at this university and elsewhere...