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If today the I.R.A. looms larger in the imagination than any other army in modern times, it is because imagination was always its main weapon. Never has a minuscule army enlisted so many gifted poets, playwrights and novelists,* nor a colonial quarrel produced so rich a body of literature. By...
Murmuring scholarly pleasantries, a pride of art professors and museum officials gathered amidst the grainy oak paneling and ostentatiously plain furniture of Manhattan's Harvard Club, only to find the place set with traps. For cocktail-hour amusement before a dinner of the Friends of Harvard's Fogg...
Then came "Radar Sentry," a device designed to give early warning of radar traps. Resembling a miniature radio, Radar Sentry costs $40, is attached to sun visor or dashboard, and warns of an impending checkpoint by giving out a cheery burble that turns into an insistent squeak once the radar...
For all its 36 years, The New Yorker Magazine has been either fat enough or finicky enough to indulge its stubborn allergy to Madison Avenue exaggeration in advertising. It takes such a stringent view of overstatement that it once rejected a testimonial touting a how-to-golf pamphlet which offered...
As science, most of this stuff is highly questionable. Australopithecus was a great discovery, but the evidence that he used weapons is extremely flimsy, and there is even less proof that it was the weapon that led to his development into true man. In any case, weapons are only part...