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...Seamless Web. Lessing acknowledges that the "apocalyptic mood has been stirred by some very palpable social miscarriages of science and technology"-notably the Indochina war and the environmental crisis. Still, he cannot accept "the proposition that America needs less growth, less knowledge, less skill, less progress." Scientists and engineers, he says, "are increasingly cast as the villains of this emotional drama. But it should be obvious that science by its nature and structure can offer society only options." Lessing points out that the traditional role of scientists is advisory, and as often as not their advice is ignored. "The height...
There is also danger in the notion that society can choose what it wants of science and destroy what it feels is valueless or threatening. "Science is indivisible," Lessing states, "a seamless web of accumulated knowledge, and to destroy a part would rip the whole fabric. Every discovery or invention of man has this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear...
Painted Music. It was in this observation that Marin's modernity lay. He saw nature not as a collection of objects in a neutral space, but as a field of interacting energies, a seamless pattern of events...
...this is admirably conveyed by Jack MacGowran in the Works of Samuel Beckett. A fellow Irishman, MacGowran can claim a friendship and affinity with Beckett attested to by a BBC play, Eh, Joe, specifically written for him by the Nobel-prizewinning playwright. With a seamless unity MacGowran has assembled a one-man reading session, principally from Beckett's novels (Malone Dies, Molloy, The Vnnameable) and plays (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Endgame). Cloaked in a black-spattered coffin of a coat, head and body shaken with keening tremors, and eyes stony with grief, MacGowran...
...squash team now has a ten-day break until its next match against Army on Dec. 17. The well-conditioned Cadets always present a challenge to Harvard, especially at West Point. Army is one of the few teams that uses a seamless ball, and coach Jack Barnaby will have the Crimson practicing with this different ball in the next few days...