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...quit as a moral protest in 1951, when nuclear rocketry began taking over the field), and he made his way to Nairobi. There he served as a researcher for the Anglicans. "We are neither East nor West here," he says, "and Africa is also the continent where the religious ferment is one of the greatest in the world today...
...announcements come at a time of intensifying ferment in both industries, and the inevitable effect will be to spur even more competition, change and upheaval. For years, IBM and AT&T have warily circled each other, sensing that each is dominant in a market that holds enormous promise for the other. Since the '60s, the once distinct worlds of data processing and communications have increasingly fused together into a vast new megamarket. Computers a continent apart communicate with each other over telephone lines and via satellite transmissions. Meanwhile, the elaborate multibillion-dollar telephone networks that make such communications possible...
...into their first illicit kiss-the most erotic moment in a movie that is as much about comrades as about lovers. Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods of American ferment: the late teens and the late '60s. As Reed's Soviet nemesis, Novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself handsomely-a tundra of Russian ice against Reed's all-American fire...
...weird time for architecture, and weirder still for its public. In America, vast numbers of new buildings go up. Whole avenues seem to rise overnight, like sprouting plants in a time-lapse movie; status, constantly in flux, is one big slide area. With the action, there goes an equal ferment of fashion and criticism. Classical modernism is defended as archaeology and derided as a failed Utopia. In its place, though more visible on the drawing boards than the streets, there is something some observers have conveniently named "post-modernism." But is that a movement, a style or just a journalistic...
There is more ferment than ever before about the need to re-examine the meaning of war in today's world. The idea of massive nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union has received perhaps too much attention. The ability of the U.S. to deal with new, high-tech weapons of conventional warfare-and new kinds of economic and political confrontations-has been neglected...