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...perhaps it should not be surprising that the latest of Doris Lessing's more than 30 books tells of the birth of a monster. Throughout her long, distinguished career, Lessing has specialized in bucking currents. Her early fiction carried a strong, if artfully submerged, feminist message. Later, when the women's movement gathered force, she did not join the parade but rather devoted her energy to a cycle of five science-fiction novels. She criticized the West when its power seemed paramount. When the enemies of democracy grew threatening, she changed her emphasis; in The Good Terrorist (1985) she showed...
Unfortunately, for students dissatisfied with large class sizes, the Core offers very few alternatives to the "Monster Cores." The best courses (according to the CUE Guide) and the easiest (according to Crimson editors) are consistently huge. Thus, these students are forced to endure the inaccessibility of the professor, the bureaucracy of sectioning, the personal quirks of the teaching fellow army, and the inevitable race for the Coop's inadequate book supply...
...degrees, enormously simplifying the aiming of the instrument. It is probably the world's only building with snowplow blades on its corners to clear a path as it rotates about a circular track. When its doors open, they reveal not a sleek, tubular telescope, but a six-eyed monster, a hexagonal array of half a dozen 72-inch mirrors, the sum of whose images equals the capacity of a single mirror 176 inches across...
...National Basketball Association's most dreaded monster is not Akeem Olajuwon or Charles Barkley but the western road-trip--the one swing west of the Mississippi that each eastern team must make every year...
...couch potatoes, a monster mash...