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...writing in the fifteen essays contained in Science Fiction. Today and Tomorrow, varies from contributor to contributor; from the short, contained prose of Frank Herbert to the philosophic ramblings to Theodore Sturgeon. The book is labelled "A Discursive Symposium" and indeed, it is a comprehensive survey of the field. Frederik Phol and George Zebrowski analyze science fiction in publishing and the visual media Poul Anderson and Hal Clement, in back-to-back essays, explain how writers create imaginary worlds and creatures, drawing on scientific data. And one of the few female science fiction novelists. Anne McCaffrey, examines the lack...
...this right is reserved for such groups as the New American Movement and prohibited for others such as the supporters of the Chilean military junta. For instance, Eduardo Frei (the Chilean president before Salvador Allende, and leader of the Christian Democrat Party) was unable to speak before a symposium for the Center for Latin-American Development Studies (CLADS) at Boston University in mid-October because of violent student disruptions. Quoting from The Daily Free Press (October 17, 1974): "The crowd of approximately 75 protesters rushed into the empty auditorium tables. Cries of 'fight back' and 'down with the junta...
Black at 59 is a one-man symposium of "other things." Besides writing poetry, he paints well enough to have a dealer. ("He hasn't sold any of my works," says Black. "It was his suggestion that he become my dealer, not mine.") He is a music lover who each year organizes a Louis Armstrong memorial at the law school. The Texas-born scholar, who still has his drawl, also plays the trumpet and "a pretty good cowboy harmonica." A lifelong devotee of Chesterton's joy at being in the wrong place, Black began his scholarly career...
...televised symposium on the 18 per cent unemployment rate, Bok modifies his previous position. "If you went to Whittier College in Whittier, Calif., you might have to worry about a job," Bok says, "but here at Harvard you have nothing to worry about." Accepting the Harvard Republican Club's Charles Manson Award for Mass Murder, former President Richard M. Nixon announces his simultaneous retirement from politics and organized crime. Nixon stops by the Coop to autograph copies of his memoirs, Requiem for a Dike Bomber...
...observations fairly spewed out when the editors of the UCLA Law Review asked nine constitutional experts to assess the Supreme Court's U.S. v. Nixon decision last summer in the case of the White House tapes. This week the Law Review will publish the responses as a legal symposium, and despite the popular admiration that greeted the court's ruling, the academics for the most part rated the opinion at barely a gentleman...