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...casual reader, the story may sound like a far-out effort at science fiction. But the moon tale told by Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven amounts to much more than an imaginative voyage into the distant past; it is an ingenious effort to reconstruct a cosmic catastrophe that changed the composition of man's earth and set a new course for the moon more than 2 billion years...
When Goodman talks about one of his drawings or paintings, he resembles a man trying to reconstruct a half-forgotten dream. Just as a dream is triggered by some incident of the day, a Goodman painting may stem from the most humdrum of sights, which he transforms into an image that seems to have endless ramifications and is always in part a mystery. Once Goodman noticed two people sunning themselves on the deck of a ship; these became two eerie figures in ghostly robes lying in a landscape that appears to have no beginning and no end, and what...
Over the protests of militant Marxists, he began promoting "healthy cooperation" with France, sought increased aid. "They are duty bound to help us reconstruct," he said in an interview with TIME Correspondent James Wilde. "This would help dissipate all that went before." France is committed to give Algeria a minimum of $200 million a year for the next three years and is sponsoring its association with the Common Market...
...specific situation, rather than skimming over great hunks of history at a time. As M.I.T. Historian Elting Morison, editor of Theodore Roosevelt's letters and a key E.S.I. scholar, put it: "It may be that a student can learn more about American Government by studying original materials to reconstruct a single case-say, the events surrounding the building of the battleship Kentucky in 1900-than by reading all the civics books in print...
Slim's vivid, modest account of the Burma campaign, Defeat into Victory, is already reckoned a minor masterpiece of war reporting. His new Unofficial History of assorted lesser campaigns in a 48-year army career boosts his reputation as a soldier who can reconstruct battles as brilliantly as he fought them...