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...themes: generational traditions, fathers and mothers and sons and daughters, and this idea that the Red Sox are not, in essence, a baseball team but are, rather, New England-like beans, cod, the Swan Boats, a martini at the Ritz, finnan haddie at LockeOber's, the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, the day's last run at Mad River Glen, a jog around Block Island. And now I was wondering, even as the book hit the stores, whether this last premise was being rendered wholly false by the great fame and . . . well, transcendence of the Red Sox as currently constituted. Were...
Saturday, April 16. Ralph Stanley & his Clinch Mountain Boys and the Peter Rowan/Tony Rice Quartet. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre. $30, $25 students. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
...this film, which for some reason begins with voices in prayer in church and the figure of Jesus covered with blood. Then the film proceeds to show the Chicago squash court and herky-jerky conversations among Szilard, Wigner, Edward Teller and the rest. A jalopy convertible winds up a mountain road in a scene that might have come from a Gene Autry western of the 1930s. There are sudden shots of the Statue of Liberty; sheep and golden flowers by a roadside; the Los Alamos Ranch School, which occupied the land before the lab came, a place where wealthy families...
...black physician in Soweto: "It's a sort of love-hate relationship. But when you get down to it, the relationship exists." A number of African leaders, including Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, have said that they accept the white South Africans as Africans. "They cannot be pushed over Table Mountain into the sea," Kaunda once said...
...Their task: to build a flight simulator for pilot training that would show on a screen the same unfolding landscape the pilot would see from the air. To do this, the Utah scientists first had to program into the computer a precise mathematical model of every tree, house and mountain in the flight path. Then they instructed the machine to put each of those objects into three-dimensional perspective, to give it the illusion of depth and to eliminate those surfaces that would be hidden from the viewer's line of sight...