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IMAGINARY MAGNITUDE by Stanislaw Lem Translated by Marc E. Heine Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 248 pages...
Many readers are ashamed to admit that they could not or did not finish a book. These unfortunates may take comfort from the latest flight into the cosmos of science philosophy (or sci-phi) made by Polish Fabulist Stanislaw Lem. It seems that the day is coming when publishing will proliferate past the vanishing point; individual volumes will be obsolete before they reach the binders, and turning pages will be a literal waste of time. "Are we not threatened with a flood of information?" Lem asks. "Such vastly multiplied content in collision brings no credit to thought, but rather...
Before his controlling joke ("prefaces that lead nowhere") wears thin, Lem concludes his fictional anthology with a series of pseudo-documents that seem to have a middle and end as well as a beginning. GOLEM XIV is the last in a line of increasingly super computers developed to monitor the U.S. interests in peace or war. Unfortunately, it has grown indifferent to this task, and so has HONEST ANNIE, its superior and supposedly foolproof successor. Says one of the commentators on this debacle: "In a word, it had cost the United States $276 billion to construct a set of luminal...
...plane. Says CBS News Vice President Joan Richman: "We have made some effort this year to report the campaign in a broader context and to lessen the sort of fragmentary coverage you get when your only reporting is from each individual candidate." CBS Correspondents Susan Spencer and Lem Tucker have been encouraged to step back from the Mondale and Glenn buses to work on "big picture" stories. Other analytical pieces on specific issues or themes have been done by each network's senior political reporters...
John F. Kennedy and K. LeMoyne ("Lem") Billings became best friends in the early 1930s at the Choate School, an elitist institution then run on authoritarian lines. Both boys were rebels. Born underdogs they had been "almost the runts" of their respective litters. Jack was chronically ill; Lem had grown up "scrawny" and "practically blind." Neither boy was a match for his older brother. As Kennedy's nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. puts it, "When Lem and Jack got together, it was almost as if they were thumbing their noses at the world...