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...dungeon of alienation: the voice pleads with the reader for understanding, and as the speaker surfaces out of the narrative sporadically to grope at us, the torture of writing such a chronicle becomes a major theme. With a style like that of a mole burrowing furiously inches below the soil, sending up a series of tiny explosions of dirt, Rhodes has created a narrator that is some kind of seventies' Underground...
...conflict with Flashman stems from an altercation between Flashman, Sr. and young Tom before Tom ever set foot on Rugby soil, Flashman, Jr. is an evil, scheming individual, but he is his father's running dog, following orders and not just a rotten school bully. And much of the skirmishing between Flashman and Tom takes place outside of Rugby, involving outside allies that Flashman drags in to bedevil Tom. Rugby school plays a much smaller role in the TV serial than it did in Thomas Hughes's nineteenth century novel. The school is only an arena...
SPECIAL DIETARY FOODS will be subject to five specific prohibitions. Manufacturers may not claim or imply that inadequate diet results from the soil in which a food is grown; that transportation, storage or cooking of foods may result in an inadequate diet; or that ordinary foods cannot supply adequate nutrients. Nor can they claim that dietary supplements are sufficient to prevent or cure disease. They are also prohibited from making nutritional claims for non-nutritive ingredients that are added to foods...
Nearly 200 Ibs. heavier than Lunokhod 1, which it closely resembles, the remarkable machine is apparently equipped with sophisticated gear to analyze the soil that it picks up. In addition, the robot carries a cosmic-ray counter, a "telescope" that can look for distant X-ray sources in the heavens and a French-built laser reflector, which -like similar reflectors left behind by Apollo-should enable scientists to measure the distance between earth and moon with extreme accuracy...
These were hardly the words of fighting journalists, but these were not the days of great journalism, either. The worst newspapers of the period were the great yellow rags, the best were so genteel as to be stultifying--The New York Times's masthead boasted "It Does Not Soil the Breakfast Cloth." The Faculty of the College had seen to it that several earlier newspapers went out of existence after they had dared to print critical articles, and even a paper co-founded by James Russell Lowell had died from lack of readers. The bravest of the College papers...