Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even after the mighty 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope revealed no evidence at all of networks of straight lines or other manifestations of intelligent life on Mars, the fascination continued. Fredric Brown's novel Martians, Go Home, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, and the popular Buck Rogers comic strip all involved encounters with Martians of various sizes, shapes and consistencies...
...launched Project Pathfinder, a program to develop 18 new space technologies. They include compact nuclear reactors for powering lunar or Martian bases, in-space construction and assembly of spacecraft, and orbiting fuel depots for moon and Mars ships. "You can talk about going to Mars," says Pathfinder Leader Robert Rosen, "but you can't do it without these technologies." Congress appropriated $40 million for the project's first year...
...President Reagan was preparing for the Moscow summit, Michael Dukakis took time away from the campaign trail to conduct a session of his own on Soviet- American relations. Crammed into his corner office at the Massachusetts statehouse was a pride of professors, including Madeleine Albright, Joseph Nye, Robert Murray, Marshall Goldman and Robert Legvold. Also present was Senator Bill Bradley, foremost of the congressional foreign policy mavens Dukakis has come to respect. In front of the Governor was a 50-page briefing book. All seemed set for a dry but dutiful seminar...
...epiphany, which Carver's characters depend on, is the creature of Modernism; post-modernists are supposed to get beyond it somehow, as writers like Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, and Robert Coover have demonstrated. Carver's faith in the epiphany is a throwback to an earlier way of thinking about fiction. He believes in telling a story plainly and completely. Carver's stories follow a discipline that seems to come out of necessity. His stories just barely escape the desperate world that they describe. There's no artifice--Carver wouldn't pass off a "Project for a Trip to China" (Sontag...
...while Thornburgh may have decided againstcampaigning for a political post, he has stillbeen actively involved in the political worldwhile at Harvard. He has been mentioned as apossible running mate for Vice President GeorgeBush in the fall campaign. And he testifed onbehalf of Judge Robert Bork, whom he knew from hisearlier Justice Department days, during hisunsuccessful nomination hearings before the SenateJudiciary Committee last year