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...underdeveloped country. You see almost no cars in Hanoi or outside where we visited. There are no facilities for color photography in North Vietnam, very little printing facilities, the few posters I saw were originals and were not duplicated. In other words it's a country that by outward appearances is enormously poor. Now you might think that in their situation the typical scientist would be more directed toward practical things. The kind of stuff I do is of questionable interest to underdeveloped countries. But the fact of the matter is that among these hundred people the interest was enormous...
...runs his empire in a muted, loosely organized style. Visitors often find him sprawled in an armchair in his corner office on the 35th floor of Manhattan's General Motors Building, his shoes off while he studies charts. Stein's informal clothes, casual manner and diffident speech are outward manifestations of a state of mind. He soaks up information, but prefers getting it from people rather than books. An unschooled man with great gaps in his knowledge, he is never afraid to admit ignorance: instead, he asks openly for instruction. A less confident man might bluster through by pretending knowledge...
...distinction is difficult to prove. For one thing, pornography has been a private enthusiasm, so that epochs of conservative outward rectitude, such as Victorian England, have produced lush undergrowths of erotica. And anyone who has ever attended a smoker with conservatives in, say, Prairie Village, Kansas, knows that the gusto for smut is nonpartisan. When he heard of the report, California Congressman John Rousselot, a conservative Republican, grumbled: "How did they determine it? I know they didn't interview...
...screen door pushed outward in a slow swing, the spring on the screen door stretching vibrantly, a plangent twang, WRIRRRAANG, which, more than any other sound, more than all those overworked katydids, crickets, tree frogs, etc., seems to evoke the heart of summer...
...Buck Rogers, Frankenstein, or even H. G. Wells. A great wealth of horrifying supernatural material has always filled the world's myths. Sigmund Freud, because he raised the unconscious to the conscious level, may well be the seminal figure. Of course any Science Fiction worth its metaphysical salt extends outward to the blackest realms of the universe where our planet is lost among other planets, and our galaxy among other galaxies. But Science Fiction is also a voyage inward to the realm of the unconscious where identities merge into the one-ness of universal being and so forth...