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...Bernard Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body of nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind's ascent from darkness to a science-aided summit far from the present day. Like most...
...yesterday's contest, Harvard controlled the game from the outset but did not pull away for good until sophomore attackman Peter Follows scored with seconds remaining in the third quarter. Moving from behind the net, Follows burned a Minuteman defenseman and easily slipped the rubber past goalie Gerald Moreau for a 7-6 Crimson lead...
Senior Tim Pendergast's exploits in the Crimson nets stood out all the more since they were at their most spectacular in the final quarter, which started with the score tied at six. For a while UMass goalie Gerald Moreau matched Pendergast save for save...
...appeared on the cover in 1926; Genevieve de Gaulle, niece of General De Gaulle; and the widow of President Georges Pompidou, a cover subject in 1969, 1971, 1973 and 1974. Present, too, were former Premier Edgar Faure (1955), former Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville (1964) and Actress Jeanne Moreau...
Publisher Moreau makes a cynical and transparent attempt to defend Suicide on the grounds that "the right of suicide is an inalienable right, like the right to work, the right to like certain things, the right to publish." The last item in the series, of course, is key. It doesn't take much imagination to see the results if life-and-death information becomes part of the general flow of carelessly-tossed-off junk books...