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...wants or needs-whether it be the de-mothballing of a battleship or subsidies to tobacco growers-the fact remains that taxes do pay for schools and libraries, hospitals and highways, police and prisons, and research into outer space. "Taxes," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "are what we pay for civilized society...
Burgess describes this fiction as an "entertainment" rather than a novel. In a dust-jacket blurb he announces that the discovery of the unconscious, the possibility of universal socialism and man's ability to live in outer space are the century's "three greatest events." The End of the World News (the BBC news readers' sign-off phrase) amplifies those themes with a twist, and it is a twist of the dial. Reading, says the author, must reflect the new way of viewing television in the "three-screen family." Therefore his postliterary trilogy is broken into prime...
Perhaps being used to the city lights of Boston, Mr. Zucker would not fit into the Colby environment, where you cannot rely on being spoon fed and having your hands held while being shown. One of the advantages of colleges like Colby, located on the outer reaches of the empire, if you will, is that students, faculty and staff become resourceful and are encouraged to get involved in the arts, sports, and the intellectual life of the college...
Guthke explained that society's attitude towards extraterrestrials has changed significantly from the era of the Inquisition, when men often met their late at the stake for even thinking about the possibility of life in outer space...
...LEGACY of Peter Sellers '80 has bequeathed to Harvard a finer appreciation than before of theatrical innovation. During Sellars' four years here, the community witnessed productions that reached to the outer limits of interpretation and experimentation. Now a talent the greater theater world need reckon with, Sellars clearly knew what he was doing, and he rarely came up without pearls. Unfortunately, his example also marked student theater with a mad and often careless pursuit of creative spontaneity, an excessive emphasis on the experimental side of drama, that now plagues and even stems its creativity...