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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter was given a set of Guy de Maupassant's books. He read them all. He pursued Thomas Hardy's works. As he grew he took educational side excursions like Hitler's Mein Kampfand Darwin's The Origin of Species. Carter and his wife studied a bit of art history, and of course he read much of the literature of the South, William Faulkner being a principal source. Like John Kennedy, Carter had fun along the way too. He has read with some relish, he confesses, most of the James Bond spy thrillers...
...science fiction that could be called fiction science. Like astrology or its medieval cousin alchemy, fiction science tries to explain the unknown through a system of symbolic beliefs-a kind of mythology purportedly based on scientific reason. Like religion, FS's principal aim is to explain the mysterious origin of life on earth. In that sense, the Arthur C. Clarke of Childhood's End and 2001 is a fiction scientist...
...Tuxedo Ballroom (Third Ave. and 17th St.; $6 cover on weekends). At Barney Googles (225 E. 86th St.; $4 cover on weekend nights and free admission for women before 10 p.m.) you can hear both disco and highly spiced Latin music, called salsa. This blistering rhythm, Afro-Cuban in origin, is served up hottest at the Corso (205 E. 86th St.), where the dance floor gives you the chance for the sort of workout that could lead to an Olympic qualification...
...attempt at such widespread controls, however, gives little ground for encouragement. The Committee of Public Safety of the Congress did place controls on a list of goods, mostly of West Indian origin, at the beginning of hostilities. The attempt proved unpopular and hence unenforceable, and only tea and salt still remain on the list...
...would appeal to voters as refreshing newcomers and underdogs. It did not help that Brown, Church and Udall?with Humphrey rooting restlessly from the sidelines?could challenge Carter one-on-one, while he was running everywhere. His opponents won the votes of people who were suspicious of his Southern origin or the depth of his commitment to liberal programs, unions and Israel...