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...secrets--political, personal, atomic. The cold war, just beginning, took form upon a battlefield of deadly concealed knowledge, of espionage and counterespionage, the terrible prize of which was the secret of the power to destroy the world. The Saturday Evening Post still gave Americans a Norman Rockwell version of themselves as an essentially lovable and virtuous people. The first programs in the new medium of television worked the same vein. But the war--as war always is--had been a violent exploration of the possibilities of human nature. Technology had expanded the possibilities in the direction of apocalypse. Americans asked...
...Linnaean Street resident reported that upon exiting her residence, she observed a male standing at the corner of Linnaean Street and Avon Street, one block north of the Quad. The resident then walked to her motor vehicle and the suspect also walked over, staring at her. She then went back into her residence and the suspect left a few minutes later. Since June of 2004, the suspect has done this approximately twenty times...
Vendler’s 30-minute speech, entitled “The Ocean, The Bird, and The Scholar,” was the reprise of a speech she gave last year in Washington D.C. upon receiving the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Jefferson Lecture award...
...small audience, obliged good naturedly, struggling, upon Schwartz’s instructions, to “blow air through mouth without pitch,” in “U.S. Indian war-whoop fashion...
...Upon entering the house—whose crowded atmosphere could be described as a cross between the annual Filene’s Basement wedding gown sale and a room party crashed by freshmen—DiPietro remarked, “You’d think they were giving ’em away...