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...skit featured a student playing Wilson as he went out into the inner-city to study poverty. Skocpol says the student playing Wilson knocked on a door in the ghetto and said, "Hello! I'm Bill Wilson, the Lucy Flower University Professor from the University of Chicago. And I have been given a million dollars by a prestigious foundation to study...
...genius for excess and caricature. On one side, the love-it-or-leave-it, proud, Middle American, Okie-from-Muskogee, traditionalist nation of squares who supported the cold war assumptions that took Lyndon Johnson ever deeper into Vietnam. On the other side, the "countercultural" young, either flower children or revolutionaries, and their fellow-traveling adult allies in the antiwar movement, the Eugene McCarthy uprising against L.B.J., people whose hatred of the war in Vietnam led them into ever greater alienation from American society and its figures of authority...
Think of an aging musician stopping on a street corner where a great dance palace once stood, yearning for one more Big Band night, when men in white dinner jackets pressed golden horns to their lips while a woman in a red evening gown with a flower in her hair sang plaintively of love...
...space. Like NASA's unmanned Viking ships of the 1970s, Pathfinder will land on Mars' pockmarked surface. Unlike the Vikings, Pathfinder will have someplace to go once it gets there. After the pyramid-shaped payload touches down, its sides will open like the petals of a 3-ft.-tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling at 2 ft. a minute, and sample the soil for several weeks--or until its batteries...
...instead of communing with the majestic peaks and flower-studded meadows, I spend my hikes going over all the helpful tips for surviving an Encounter. Look them in the eye? No, that was mountain lions. Bears just hate it when you stare at them, so keep your gaze fixed dreamily on the scenery. Play dead? Let's see, that works for grizzlies but not for black bears. So do you take off the backpack, get out the wildlife guidebook, do a quick taxonomic determination and then play dead...