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...commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...visage, has been a swing away from his thought to a fresh classroom consciousness of Marx. In West Germany, where West Berlin's Neukölln factory quarters became so hostile to anti-Viet Nam demonstrators last winter that one was badly beaten, S.D.S. activists are trying to reconstruct workers with a missionary effort. Groups of students drop in on worker pubs, strike up conversations over checker matches, and gradually set up small groups that aim to determine their common anticapitalistic grievances. However, with only 50 groups (20 to 60 members each) now functioning, and considerable worker skepticism remaining...
...addition to the problems discussed above the committee may get into the traditional issues like the inequalities between the Houses and the role students ought to have in making House rules (parietals!). Mainly, however, the work of the new committee is an attempt to reconstruct House life to solve equally vital long-term problems...
...reconstruct the story of Germany's A-bomb project, British Historian David Irving interviewed German scientists, studied recently declassified papers, and discovered a supply of captured German documents that had been lying unused and neglected for many years in an AEC warehouse at Oak Ridge, Tenn. From his meticulous research he has put together a chilling account of a project that might have changed the outcome of the war and reduced London or New York, rather than Hiroshima and Nagasaki to radioactive ashes...
...complement the planned expedition, Mark Adams '66, a graduate student in History of Science, has started a Quincy House seminar on Darwin and the voyage. Allen Tobin, a graduate student in Biophysics who is also involved with the seminar, said that the seminar will try "to reconstruct Darwin's mind during the voyage of the Beagle...