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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagination which raise Sagan to something of a '70s cult figure rescue a lot a Broca's Brain. Sagan recounts, for example, a colorful and enthusiastic history of his profession, emphasizing the incredibly rapid blossoming of American astronomy. In an equally lively essay, he describes the ludicrous procedure scientists use to name newly-discovered craters...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: Carl's Charisma | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...going to give him a chance to go," Restic said, "but Jack Fadden (the Harvard trainer) will have to give him the okay first. If he can play, that will give us a chance to use some things we worked on back in early training camp." Joe Lahti will be in reserve...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Green Slide Into Town | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...characterizations, as in realistic fiction, but with the subtle, subliminal--but equally poignant--truth underlying the fabrication of plot and character. Kafka, Borges, Lem and Marquez succeed on this secondary level by treading a thin line between fantasy and realism--in The Castle, for example. Kafka's careful use of language preserves this ambiguity: the reader is never quite sure of what to accept as plausible, and what to reject as implausible, so that such a distinction ultimately loses all significance...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Illness as Simile | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...novel opens, Kinsman is 21, an idealistic Air Force test pilot. He loves to fly, and he wants to be an astronaut. He is told: "You don't believe they'll actually give you what you want, do you? They'll use you for cannon fodder... They'll put you in a war plane and order you to kill people." Kinsman, already straining his Quaker heritage by joining the military, vows he won't be a pawn of a system he does not like but must deal with to get what he wants--into space...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: One for the Neophytes | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...without rocking the boat. Although it is commonly recognized that the CIA acts on the whims and wishes of whomever occupies the White House, and not as the non-partisan intelligence-gathering organization originally envisioned in the National Security Act of 1947, the crassness of Nixon's attempt to use the CIA for domestic politics apparently struck a raw nerve in Helms...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Company He Kept | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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