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Also entertaining are two short portraits, one of Albert Einstein, the other of Robert Goddard. Broca's Brain was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth, and the chapter Sagan devotes to him is reflective of the event, brimming with amusing anecdotes and quotes. The portrait of Goddard glows with Sagan's adulation of the great eccentric and pioneer. If there's any problem with these two portraits, in fact, it's that they're almost oo good--you wish you were reading a book by one of the two, instead of just a chapter about...
...long. The book is hence painfully disjointed; he leaps from topic to topic at random. Redundancy creeps in--a theme introduced in one essay is often uselessly repeated in a second, and not infrequently beaten into the ground in a third. Most seriously, though, these essays are just too short to develop their subject. No sooner do you get caught up in one than Sagan discards it in favor of something fresh...
...they rode through Ye Olde Square. They came to rape and pillage fair Cambridge, and to challenge the knights of King Joseph's Varsity Table. And most of all, these lusty and lecherous disgraces to chivalry came seeking the Crimson maidens, the damsels of too-tight tunics and too-short skirts, the leaders of cheer in the court of King Joseph...
...today's game is more than crucial. After four weeks with an unsettled and unsettling quarterback situation, the position is still up in the air, but the Dartmouth game comes at a time when the Crimson must enter the Renaissance or champions have fallen a long way in a short time as last year's Big Green squad surprised everyone with a 6-1 record...
Dartmouth will take Soldiers Field today with a 0-3-1 record overall and an 0-2 mark in the Ivy League. Last year's Ivy champions have fallen a long way in short time as last year's Big Green squad suprised everyone with a 6-1 record...