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...have passed, and the non-sci-fi fanatic may feel as benumbed as the scientists in their "hibernacu-lums." In depicting interplanetary flight 33 years from now, Director Stanley Kubrick and his co-scenarist, Arthur C. Clarke, England's widely respected science and science-fiction writer, dwell endlessly on the qualities of space travel; unfortunately they ignore such old-fashioned elements as character and conflict. As the ship arcs through the planetary void it is an object of remarkable beauty-but in an effort to convey the idea of careening motion, the sound track accompanying the trek plays...
Somewhere in the commodious vaults where dwell the souls of playwrights dead and gone. Two figures, faces wreathed in mist, crouch over a chess table. After a time the vapours clear, and we see the faces of Bertolt Brecht and Henrik Ibsen. Brecht speaks first...
...tried and proven," says John D. Rockefeller III, who maintains an active interest as board chairman of the foundation erected on his grandfather's wealth. "We tend to hang back, responding slowly to change, often with too little, and sometimes too late. Rather than venture, we dwell on the problems of yesterday, neglectful of the new needs of today and the impatient future...
...doing today. It is a difference that cuts through the other differences, perhaps because it is a little inside each of us, and it leads to a mistake that we are liable to make no matter how else we agree or differ. In religious terms, it is to dwell too much on the possibility of the Apocalypse; in political terms, it is to dwell too much on the possibility of a Utopian Society. We must not confuse the ceremony and symbolism of today's service with the reality that we are only a few hundred people with very little power...
...Zimmerman is not the only one who thinks Harvard might have busted the game wide open if it had scored a touchdown in the second period, as it came within two yards of doing. For Ithacans, the "might-have-beens" start with the two missed extra points and then dwell on a bad break which upset Cornell's three fourth-down drives toward a winning touchdown or field goal...