Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fear of intellectual inadequacy, of powerlessness before the tireless electronic wizards, has given rise to dozens of science-fiction fantasies of computer takeovers. In The Tale of the Big Computer, by Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven, written under the pen name Olof Johannesson, the human beings of today become the horses of tomorrow. The world runs not for man but for the existence and welfare of computers...
What is happening is not only believable but inevitable. In the words of science-fiction Writer Ray Bradbury, "It's pure sci-fi." Across the country, "these magical beasts," as they have been called, are assisting hassled, often incompetent teachers. They are revivifying soporific students, dangling and delivering intellectual challenges beyond the ken of most educators. Says Bradbury: "Millions of buildings' worth of mostly outdated literature and information will be stored on tiny capsules for retrieval when needed. There's too damn much paper around anyway...
This would not matter so much if the sculptures had any aesthetic relationships to sustain them as fiction, but they...
...sort who put his audience into a bathysphere and took them down three feet. He could not have met Leslie Fiedler, who, along with Norman Mailer, is one of the most daring skinny-dippers in U.S. literary and social criticism. Throughout a long career that includes some brilliant fiction (Nude Croquet, 1969), Fiedler has boldly led his readers down whirlpools of the national subconscious. In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), he argued that the country's literature was obsessed with death and therefore incapable of developing mature heterosexual themes. Such matey relationships as Natty Bumppo...
...volumes of the best fiction you always wanted to read will not be acted out at center court; nor will Professor Emeritus John Finley deliver a lecture on the Iliad. In fact, you won't see aspiring Commencement Day speakers expatiate in Latin, either...