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Your Essay "The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel" [Dec. 15] strikes an oddly optimistic note at the end. I fear we've lost far more of our cultural traditions than we can hope to rediscover. Too much of the social glue-church, family, local community-that used to hold...
The task of the nation's leaders in the '80s will be to rediscover new themes of purpose in American life. History, of course, may help by assailing the serene with some of its blunt instruments. As U.A.W. President Doug Eraser says, "It is almost impossible to get movement in...
Eiseley's most significant accomplishment, though, is to rediscover another English naturalist named Edward Blyth, who as early as 1835 set forth the tenets of what later became known as the the ory of natural selection. Darwin, Eiseley argues persuasively, was more than just a little familiar with Blyth...
If there is such a thing as a foolproof movie, Escape from Alcatraz must be it. Throw together Clint Eastwood, an airtight jailbreak plot, a first-rate storyteller like Director Don Siegel ... and what could possibly go wrong? As it happens, almost nothing. True, Escape from Alcatraz embraces virtually every...
One reason that so many are willing is that for many mainlanders the gloss has gone off some once fashionable Caribbean and Mexican resorts. The dollar is worth a dollar, almost. The natives speak English, sort of. It is a fairly easy hop for U.S. Westerners, who account for 80...