Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VELLUCCI rapped on a glass to get our attention for the award. To Presidents Pusey, Bunting, Johnson, and Weisner went sets of brass plated bookends engraved with the seal of Cambridge. Pusey was speechless but managed an appropriate thank you. Bunting went up to the podium to pose for one of the pictures on this page and she and Vellucci discussed their upcoming Ping-Pong match for the Currier House tournament. Last year they were unable to play because Bunting was eliminated in an early round...
There are disadvantages too. Kahn, author of Domebook One, a basic dome dweller text, says: "Leaking is the dome's biggest drawback." He adds, however, that the problem is well on the way to solution: new caulking materials make it possible to seal chronically leaky seams. Another disadvantage is the free movement of air in the usually non-partitioned domes, which makes them noisy to live in-but easy to heat and cool. Ordinary furniture looks awkward in domes: built for rectangular homes, familiar chairs and tables do not fit against curving walls (dome dwellers have already designed furniture...
...interview yesterday General Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, said that the invasion had a limited objective, the destruction of enemy stockpiles. He denied that it was ever intended to seal off the Ho Chi Minh trail...
Clavell's intentions are above that order: his story does have real possibilities as a vehicle for communicating the hypnotic attraction of humanist gemiitlichkeit amidst deteriorating world situations. Cross The Seventh Seal with Lost Horizon and you have a good idea of the conception's attractiveness. But it is in his attempt not to play with the material that Clavell manages to kill his situation's bite...
...that dark tract between social role and inner imagination whose verbal maps were drawn by Kubin's Middle European contemporary, Franz Kafka. The Guilt, 1902, is quintessential Kubin: a starveling figure immersed to his knees in water, bent double under the weight of a fat, disaffected-looking seal-slimy, absurd and immovable. The beast is not even malevolent enough to make his victim look brave. It was with such images that alienation became identifiable as a state of art and its rule over the European imagination began...