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...chin kisses his chest. He looks like Satan grown chubby, but his deepest pleasure is the most innocent in Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...
...Stein, who adapted his comedy from the autobiographical novel of TV Comedian Carl Reiner, retains stubborn, slightly awkward traces of honest observation. He knows that the immigrant family walks on American soil hopefully, but always with the small secret fear that it is treading quicksand. A name change may spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural extinction. This is not to suggest that Enter Laughing is a social document, but merely that its solid sense of social place and time (the Depression) gives an evening of frequently paralyzing laughter an element...
...quads are split-level with built-in refrigerator, four ample bed rooms, and a picture windowed living room. But, halt. Only a handful of unattached sophomores enter this updated paradise. Most spend either a year in Claverly or a year or two in Mather. But this need not spell tragedy. Claverly is rhapsodically described elsewhere in this supplement, and Mather, although its rooms are smaller, differs little from Harvard's other Georgian halls...
...Space itself has no temperature (having no matter that can be hot or cold), but each object in space assumes a temperature that depends on the balance between the radiation that it absorbs and the radiation that it emits. A dab of paint (if it stays in place) can spell the difference between cold and hot. So can a shiny part that reflects sunlight to a light-absorbent part. Keeping all parts at proper temperatures is one of the hardest jobs in designing a viable spacecraft...
President Kennedy ordered the State Department to draft the stiffest protest yet sent to the Cuban government, declared that U.S. armed forces will "take all necessary action against any repetition of such an attack." He did not spell out that action, but the standing orders to U.S. military pilots were changed. Before, they were under instructions to fire only if fired upon. From now on, they will shoot at anyone attacking U.S. vessels or aircraft...