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BOOKS I LOVE by John Kieran. 200 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Playing the old "books I would take to a desert is land" game, the author provides fond essays on his largely predictable choices, and an occasional sharp judgment (Rousseau is "an intellectual sharper"). Information pleasing mainly to readers who prefer...
The kit also includes programmed directions-each piece is coded on the back-for three of Vasarely's own compositions. But Vasarely advises buyers to forget his own schemes and urges them to figure out their own. That way they may learn something about taste and design. Also about...
Nevertheless, the notion that the formation of social science institutes within the universities would represent a step toward the solidification of the behavioral sciences as a "hard" discipline appears to survive at the Pentagon, and so the Licklider/Pool/ARPA group had an additional reason for wanting to extend their project to...
The San Francisco dinner was a pleasing departure from the more familiar Washington diplomatic divertissements. Yet it was only a prelude to an even more unusual get-together. This week, the President plans on throwing a birthday party for Lyndon Johnson. At Nixon's invitation, the ex-Chief Executive...
Buckley quotes an excerpt from Vidal's novel, Myra Breckinridge, describing in detail the "splendor" of the male buttocks, claims that Myra "sees all life as a naming of parts, an equating of groins, a pleasing and/or painful forcing of orifices-the essence of pornography." He also charges that...