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Working in the weightless environment proved difficult and strenuous; Kerwin's pulse went up as high as 150 beats a minute. "Take it easy," advised Space Veteran Conrad,* whose own heartbeat rose only to 110. While Conrad held the rope to the cutters, Kerwin tried to direct the pole...
If he succeeds, Kott implies, he becomes the new tyrant. If he overreaches himself and fails, he becomes a scapegoat. In either case there must be a letting of blood, a climax of cruelty. Sons will devour fathers or fathers will devour sons. Call it cannibalism or call it sacrament...
--When I want your opinion of this chamber's illumination system, Mr. Dunlop I shall certainly ask for it. Is it not also true that it is only since you instituted this highly questionable procedure that the Watergate case has become Big News? No, don't answer that, Mr. Dunlop...
In a little town called Manresa, he devoted nearly a year to an orgy of austerity, begging door to door, wearing a barbed girdle, fasting for days on end. For months he endured the terrible depressions of the mystic's dark night of the soul, even contemplating suicide at one...
Venturi's aptitude for making such outrageous comparisons between great buildings of the past and those of the strip add humor and flair to the writing. But this humor belies the intense seriousness of his message. Venturi wants people to believe that not only is urban sprawl worth understanding but...