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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups have been content to live with in the American salad bowl. In Cities on a Hill, FitzGerald--who is running this spring for a position on Harvard's Board of Overseers on a University-nominated slate of candidates--takes the reader through four alternative communities that popped up in America during the past two decades: the Castro, San Fransisco's gay neighborhood; Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church; the Rajneeshee community in Oregon; and the Sun City retirement village in Florida...

Author: By John F. Lambros, | Title: Visions of Utopia | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

...signs are everywhere. Black-clad, beret-wearing intellectuals walk the streets, muttering in French accents about meta-narratives and hermeneutics. Texts by Foucault have replaced the once ubiquitous Marx-Engels Reader as the staple on every academic reading list. One has merely to stroll through the ever-growing Literary Criticism sections in Cambridge bookstores to recognize the imminent danger that is threatening our society. The Day of Deconstruction is upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO WHAT | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...computer screening of the contents of thedisc would be a lot like reading a book, Cranesays. There would be footnotes running along sidethe text which would vary in complexity accordingto the level of the reader. Crane says that thecomputer-stored information would be able to beused by lay student and scholar alike...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Computers New Tool In Classics Scholarship | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

McConnell's book ends as it began, with an account of the launch which took place despite significant misgivings. Reading about the disaster for the second time, the reader feels a certain rage at the arrogance and idiocy that caused it, and cares enough about the astronauts--who had no inkling of the O-ring difficulty--to grieve for them. None but the most iron-hearted cynic could enjoy a space shuttle joke after reading this book...

Author: By Gregory R. Bell, | Title: The Seamy Side of the Shuttle | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...reader this poem

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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