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...underdog. Now bearing human footprints, the moon has assumed a new kinship with mankind. And once again, that tiny body whose feeble reflective light is daily obscured by the overpowering brilliance of sun had succeeded in blotting out, however temporarily, the dominant light source in man's special locus within the universe...
...that most inefficiencies in food policies derive from Harvard's contracting and accounting policies, with some contributions, as always, from the ever-inefficient B and G. As in most of my overtures for improvements in student living conditions. I feel like I'm arguing with an accounting system. The locus of responsibility for this is so obscure that students have no access to it whatsoever...
...Richard Ridenhour. Because his story may spur to action some of us silent pacifists and change the locus of that silent majority...
...Mere Man. This quality of savage purpose was etched to its satiric extreme in Myra Breckinridge. Gore Vidal's travesty dealt with a sex change?the conversion of Myron to Myra?and with America's compulsive devotion to movies. It was Myra's unholy quest to vanquish man; the locus of her attack was the wellspring of his contemporary myths, Hollywood. Clad principally in feminine indestructibility, she sought to blind men with her beauty, determinedly "unmanning them in the way that King Kong was reduced to a mere simian whimper by beauteous Fay Wray, whom I resemble left three-quarter...
...COURSE, as the show reminds us, Buck-minster Fuller did get his Plexiglas and steel dome built at Expo. For the Osaka fair Yutaka Murata plans a blow-up amphitheatre of pneumatic PVC tubes, shaped like a locus of horseshoes. Other inflatables pictured include a dome and a space-capsule-shaped weekend house...