Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SATURDAY: The Andromeda Strain. 1971. Robert Wise, who directed one of the best science fiction flicks ever, "The Day the Earth Stood Still," teamed with pop fiction writer Michael Crichton to produce this thriller about a biological menace to the world's population. A corker of an ending. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...
...turn Burr into a hero, but he does attempt to make him into something less two dimensional than the flip side of a coin. For this day and age, Vidal's attempt constitutes a rehabilitation of Burr. No one tries to write Parson Weems-type historical fiction anymore: larger-than-life heroes like Washington are no longer very appealing. To turn a villian into a hero of today's world-historical audience, the modern technique involves showing the basic humanity of the culprit while simultaneously debunking the old heroes. So Vidal's Burr endlessly derides Jefferson for his hypocritical dishonesty...
Rodino has had a lifelong fondness for fiction and poetry (his favorite poem: Milton's On His Blindness). As a young man he wrote a poem with a final quatrain that places wry perspective on the work now before him: "For those of you who will with scales in mind,/ The sins of erring man be called to weigh,/ Remember crossroads run a double way-/ And some go wrong who blessed with sight are blind...
Lowentin and Edmonds will speak on the subject, "I.Q. and Meritocracy--Fact or Fiction," Frances A. Maher '64, a CAR member, said yesterday...
...which universities pretend to be. Even in those sub-sections of the major universities--Law, Medicine and Business Colleges, for example--where straightforward economic self-perpetuation of the upper class seems to an outsider to hold sway as an unquestioned Gospel, great efforts still are made to propagate the fiction of true ethical and intellectual freedom...