Word: ratner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sole undergraduate representative to Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) I feel compelled to respond to Jonathan Ratner's indictment (May 25) of Harvard's investment policies in South Africa. Mr. Ratner has painted a picture of a monolithic Harvard Corporation which "completely ignore[s] the moral indignation of the students" by investing in companies with activities in South Africa. Further, the Corporation, he states, consistently votes against or abstains on shareholder resolutions which would have the effect of reducing these companies' activities in apartheid South Africa. This picture is just plain incorrect...
...written by drugaddicts deWitt is really an escaped loon from a bin in southeastern Massachusetts a renegade from a world that won't even accept yogurt culture let along drug culture the Dead are already sold out but you still might be able to buy some tickets from Ratner's roommates Margie Adams Little Feat Joan Baez April 15--17 May 13 May 21 Jordan Hall the Orpheum the Orf did you figure that one our Garland Jeffries at the Berklee Performance Center on April 17 and you can't take grandma grandma nonono I won't list any sales...
...prime characteristic of the pure mathematician is an inability to speak in language that is intelligible to the layman. It follows that any novelist with a 14-year-old mathematical genius as his hero is probably looking for trouble. Ratner's Star, Author Don DeLillo's fourth book, has just such a hero-Billy Twillig-and its problems begin right there. Although Billy has won the only Nobel Prize ever awarded in his field, neither he nor DeLillo can explain much about the nature of "zorgs," Twillig's epochal discovery. Aside from his ineffable talent, Billy...
DeLillo plunks this passive protagonist down in a futuristic think tank called Field Experiment No. 1. His task, to decode a series of radio pulses being received from the vicinity of a G dwarf designated as Ratner's Star. Billy is soon accosted by a parade of scientists and deep thinkers. Their names (Shlorno Glottic, Grbk, Orang Mohole, Desilu Espy, Hoy King Toy) seem to peg them as refugees from Thomas Pynchon's Central Casting. Their inevitable behavior - alternately cerebral and cloacal - confirms the identification...
DeLillo's aim is to show how the codification of phenomena as practiced by scientists leads to absurdity and mad ness. It is not his fault that Pynchon is simply better at weaving advanced science and cartoon characters into a convincing whole cloth. Still, Ratner's Star, for all of its monotonic monologues, of ten displays impressive erudition and the same inebriated infatuation with language that worked so well in DeLillo's End Zone, his surrealistic send-up of football and warfare...