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...monster steam engine was an appropriate symbol of the American future, but not for the reason most of the spectators suspected. The special hopes, opportunities and achievements, the fears and frustrations that marked the nation's grandeur in its second century - and are destined to mark the century now to come - were to be even newer than visitors to the 1876 exposition could imagine. These came not from bigness but from a new kind of community. New ties would bind Americans together, would bind Americans to the larger world and would bind the world to America. I call this...
Nicknamed the "monster" or "Ivan the Terrible," the Soviet station ranges across the standard short-wave radio band, sometimes jamming as many as 100 frequencies at once. Its directional beam sweeps across northern Europe and reflects off the Arctic ionosphere to scan the U.S. for missile launchings. Interference seems to be most severe in Scandinavia...
Managerially, the triple Felkerburger-New York, Village Voice, New West-had become something of a monster. Says a company insider: "With one magazine, Felker could get away with his highly personalized approach. But it's impossible with three publications 3,000 miles apart...
...Another monster sleeps in the articles appearing on March 12-13, 1975, in the carefully controlled South Korean press; their full texts would astonish the Harvard community as they have the audience for Congressional Hearings. "The second objective (of the KTA-Harvard grants) is to promote counter-active efforts against those who spearhead anti-Korean government moves like Edwin O. Reischauer (University Professor) and Jerome Cohen (associate dean of the Law School) (and) thereby to engender a pro-Korean atmosphere at Harvard and in other American academic circles." The articles make much of the need to undercut critics of Korea...
...zeal is to present modern economic and trade burgeoning as the hallmark of national life while sweeping politics, art, literature, law, history--anything humane--under the academic carpet. Harvard bought most, but not all, of this concept, insisting on adding studies of society. The outcome is a two-headed monster chair of 'Korean economics and society' untraceable in the frostiest depths of any previous academic Loch Ness...