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...about them are the most interesting in the book Ferdinand Magellan, who "with five barely seaworthy ships would face rougher seas, negotiate more treacherous passages, and find his way across a broader ocean" than any previous explorer, when he sought to circle the globe; Captain James Cook, first to sail to Antarctica, "a frigid continent girded by icebergs, some the size of mountains, others smaller,...all tossed and churned by gutsy winds and unpredictable heavy seas"; Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, "a quixotic archaeologist with a beautiful wife directing a hundred and fifty rebellious workmen on the exotic Turkish landscape...
...particular mastery over our surroundings forms the core of each part of the book. "The Eatth and the Seas" tells of the great explorers who turned geographic fantasy into maps of reality. "Nature" speaks of anatomy; as explorers once wouldn't sail the Atlantic became they believed there was no land to be found. So doctors wouldn't study the body because they thought they already knew all its organs. Boorstin shows the truth of the old chestnut: The first step towards knowledge is to admit one's ignorance. This was as true for the study of society...
Randy Newman: Trouble in Paradise (Warner Bros.). Part stand-up comedy, part The Day of the Locust: Newman's best since 1972's Sail Away...
...nomination for Man of the Year is U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Charles Lichenstein. When the Soviets complained about having the U.N. in New York, Lichenstein suggested they could sail into the sunset if they did not like the city. While his geography may be flawed, Lichenstein told the Soviets what many are thinking...
...Common. But at least no one in the Yard dies a violent death from runaway frisbees or errant golf balls. Stanford students like to say Palo Alto is more laid back, but there's a medical term for that: coma. We have crew races on the Charles River. Stanfordites sail on a man-made cesspool christened "Lake Lagunita." For non-Romance language afficianados that translates as "Lake Lake...