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...sturdy combination of the home TV screen and miniaturized space-age electronics. Focused sharply by the scope's front lens, the slightest flickers of light are directed against a chemical film, causing it to discharge electrons. Boosted along by a 15,000-volt electrostatic field, those electrons smack into a phosphorcoated screen whose light then jars loose still another flock of electrons. The process is repeated three times, and the high-voltage electron acceleration, or energy buildup, produces a progressively brighter image. Besides the light, the only other power source is a tiny built-in battery for the electric...
...littered with preserved tanks and artillery the way some people clutter their coffee tables with bronzed baby shoes. Many of its public buildings are self-conscious copies of old Washington favorites. Its war memorials offer some of the most embarrassing examples of social realism west of Leningrad. And right smack in the center of the whole city is the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument -- a phallic shaft of stone topped by a 200-foot representation of a frightfully winged female, supposedly "the happiest lady in town...
...this year's Cambridge drama season, your recalcitrant reviewer paused a moment in Brattle Square. He has for some time been convinced that there is no shortest path between these two points, that Brattle Square, and perhaps most of the corner we occupy in south-west Cambridge, are located smack in the heart of what science-fiction writers used lovingly to term a "time warp." Four years of this town, of predictable variety and commonplace brilliance, can do that to a fellow. Places, and the people who choose to hold them, can distort perception; can modify and magnify, enrich...
...most difficult problem will undoubtedly involve control of resources and that "gut" acceptance of community competence. Some community leaders have suggested that universities formulate codes of conduct for professors taking the urban plunge, but standards of this sort smack so much of infringement on academic freedoms that no faculty is likely to tolerate them. Many researchers are moving on their own toward paying subjects consultant wages, and employing black surveyors, but on questions of sub-contracting federal or foundation moneys, few are likely to give way. And genuine community consultation and cooperation are such personal matters that no one except...
...purest "oldtime" form, the music echoed the authentic Scotch-Irish folk heritage of the area. This is the style that has been passed from generation to generation on isolated farms where music is about the only recreation that doesn't smack of sin. The group that won the $25 prize as the best oldtime band, the Blue Ridge Boys of Winston-Salem, N.C., learned all of their music "from relatives" and are duly modest about their accomplishments: asked why he though the band had won, Banjoist Paul Idol replied Well, we all started on a tune exactly...