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But even the dissidents agree that the day is not too far off when man will have a valid function in space. As instrumented spacecraft get more and more sophisticated, it becomes more and more difficult to transmit, record, digest and interpret their food of raw data. The best solution...
Good God. In the age of Beckett and Ionesco. Bill Saroyan's zaniness seems almost conservative. The new play has a bank clerk named Sam Harkaharkalark, a bank president named Mr. Horniman, and a succession of other Saroyantic types who deposit both cash and wisdom. Among them: a stripper...
A TWIST OF SAND, by Geoffrey Jenkins (276 pp.; Viking; $3.95), proves once again that a proper adventure story translates the reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins...
* At the risk of destroying Reader Peters' humor, TIME translates his letter: "You say you want to jest? Either do not use the joke in our language, or do not translate it literally into your own and destroy it."
Cell Thoughts. Japan's surrender soon followed, and Kishi wondered whether he should wait for arrest by the Americans or commit suicide. A large family conference of Satos and Kishis assembled in his sick room to argue the question. One of his old schoolteachers tactlessly reminded Kishi of his...