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...scientific ignorance of politicians, businessmen, and everyone else except scientists themselves, promises to be devastating. Sir Charles's solution: Future scientists ought to read books, and more important, other students should receive at least the rudiments of a scientific education. I first read this lecture-essay for a Nat Sci course in my freshman year, and at the time I wanted to say to this world authority, "So what's new, boobala...
...Thoreau was a natural scientist as well as a machine-breaker and Henry Miller, though he studied (on his own) enough science to pass ten Nat Sci courses still passionately wanted to dynamite the whole industrial face of Brooklyn and let the splinters fall into the polluted Hudson River. Familiarity didn't breed anything but contempt...
19th century portrait photography, opening about April 25 (Honestly, that's what the publicity office said). The exhibit was put together by students in Fine Arts 20, rumored the easiest course in the University since the demise of Nat Sci 27. The exhibitors must be devoted to put in the extra work--should be very good, if it ever opens...
...SHAME that more people aren't going to see Zardoz. Perhaps homosexual rape and man's battle against nature ring more resonantly than sci-fi satire in the vacuous American psyche: No other hypothesis can account for the low popularity of John Boorman's latest film, which is almost as exciting and far more provocative than the same director's excellent and well-received Deliverance...
...story making the rounds in Hollywood about how Bob Evans had a few friends in to watch a film in the screening room of his 16-room Beverly Hills mansion. Bob was reclining on his hospital-style bed as usual, nursing his bad back. The picture was a dreadful sci-fi epic featuring an invading army of ants that marched interminably across the screen. "What do they want anyway?" a guest protested. Another viewer, Producer Ray Stark, replied, "They want the final...