Word: sci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brooks Brothers bathrobe, or a towel set. I would like to not care who Philip Roth is, whether or not he has earned the license to write a novel so apparently decadent and outrageous, or whether this is the appropriate follow-up to a story about a gargantuan sci-fi mammary gland. The Great American Novel is certainly utterly bereft of Greatness, but it is great in the way that Tony the Tiger intones the word. And it is not, as some have intimated, the pretentious and self-indulgent product of a jaded literary titan who has nothing better...
...action last year was distortion and threat, says Herrnstein. This is not true. The assertion that critics did not read "IQ" is false. SDS sold over 2000 copies on campus and encouraged people to read it. He claims that SDS created an atmosphere of intimidation in Soc Sci 15. Herrnstein's refusal after the first lecture to allow any questions except those of clarification in fact prevented open discussion. Finally, Herrnstein says the campaign was the effort of ten or twelve who succeeded in convicing others of their distortion. Hundreds across the country signed statements deploring his racism...
Responding to mysterious sci-fi bleepings, a group of flower children led by David Haskell come together for a splash party in Central Park's Belvedere Fountain. There they find Christ: an androgyne wearing a Superman sweatshirt. Repairing to a junkyard, which handles only clean and cute junk, they outfit themselves as a band of strolling players devoted to acting out the Passion against the picturesque backdrop of the modern Jerusalem (Manhattan!). The players hop, skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles...
Herrnstein is condescending towards the radicals who, he says, damaged his student-instructor relationship in Soc Sci 15, deluged the Harvard community with leaflets and posters, misquoted him, accused him and disrupted his attempts to speak publicly at Harvard and other campuses...
Course evaluations by students tend to substantiate Fell's belief. Citing nocturnal excursions to the New England Aquarium and traveling expeditions to Nahant, former students described Nat Sci 27 as "fun, interesting and easy...