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Last week, almost on the eve of celebrations commemorating Roosevelt's 100th birthday, Professor R.J.C. Butow of the University of Washington published in the February/March issue of American Heritage a remarkable transcript of some long-forgotten recordings at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. After three years of technical doctoring and close study, Butow re-created a Roosevelt talking indiscreetly with his aides about Japanese military threats, the black arts of politics and the sex life of his 1940 Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. Bu tow insists that Roosevelt had no "Machiavellian designs," and that the recorder "was never...
...space invader. Its Tennis has a couple of good illusions?the ball bounces realistically on the court?but no effective simulation of hitting the ball, and no distinction between serves and ground strokes. Like too many cartridges for all three systems, Tennis is likely to be played twice and forgotten...
...even Harvard. But the problem is that the old one refuses to go away. Henry Rosovsky may say. "Harvard is here forever," but in fact, Harvard is not here forever. The Christian Church is here forever, and in the year 4000, when Harvard and The Crimson are long forgotten, the Church will be facing new critics. Undoubtedly they too will criticize it for thinking in centuries...
...NOTEBOOK: While giving Cliff Sheehan a pep talk, Adam Dixon was approached by an official and ordered off the track. "It shows how quickly you are forgotten," Dixon said. "It's like being chairman of the Communist party in Russia and suddenly finding yourself in a six-foot cell in Siberia...
...revered Christian statues and medallions were hidden. For 2½ centuries, their fierce faith endured, but it inevitably also turned inward. Because their prayers and rituals had to be transmitted secretly among illiterate peasants, they slowly became garbled. Over the years the words were repeated while the meaning was forgotten, though some prayers retained a discernible Latin antecedent: "Ame Maria karassa binno domisu terikobintsu . . ." obviously derives from "Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum benedicta...