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...that happens matters to everyone. But who can absorb, much less report, everything? The author sometimes reaches for cosmic consciousness and produces more comedy than insights: "On one of the fishing boats in the cove, a young down-islander discovered he had the wrong-size replacement batteries for his transistor and flung them angrily into the water; they sank forty feet and nearly hit a horseshoe crab." The narrative eye that watches this descent is necessarily distracted from all the other goings-on in the world. Mooney sees the problem and plays with it entertainingly. He also convincingly portrays...
...Ears to transistor radios, thousands of fans picnicked in the sun on the banks of the Thames and in boats, awaiting word of the start of the crucial four-mile race. On the banks, men in three-piece business suits and varsity ties read. The New York Times, while children climbed trees searching for a better view. An elegantly antique Radcliffe grad in a white lace shirt and a straw hat, smoking a Tiparillo, waited patiently under a tree while two former Harvard competitors from a race long past reminisced about their own experiences at Red Top, Harvard's special...
...boogie. Sometimes the hands fly upward in imaginary conducting motions. No doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These...
...country came up with the safety pin or the Ford. But reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. While West Germany and Japan have sent a competitive shiver into American industries in recent years, the U.S. has still managed to produce such things as the Xerox, the transistor, the laser and the microchip. A lot of Yankeeingenuity is spent, to be sure, on diverting gadgetry, such as a projected palm-size phone and a vacuum cleaner with a memory (a seemingly gratuitous burden). But recent developments in medicine, such as the hybridoma cells for cancer treatment and the creation...
Though they seldom command the daily headlines, scientists by their deeds sometimes possess the potential for the greatest impact upon the world's future. Consider such works as the green revolution, the transistor, antibiotics, computers: in the past few decades, all emerged rapidly and unexpectedly to alter the course of civilization. Last year a new technology, perhaps the most startling yet created by science, came of age: genetic engineering, the ability to alter the basic stuff of life...