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...psychos or, like Jon Voight in Coming Home, sensitive and guilt-ridden. These are comic-book caricatures." Charles Figley, a Purdue University psychologist who wrote a study of his fellow Viet Nam veterans, agrees: "All the myths about the guy being a walking time bomb are just total and utter fantasy. Most have readjusted remarkably well, considering the circumstances...
...earlier works, this novel parodies those institutions claiming to have achieved static perfection or ultimate knowledge. Like Lem's earlier protagonists, usually human scientists studying alien civilizations, John is struggling to discover truths inherently too complex or mysterious to be understood. The utter failure of man's scientific explorations in past novels manifests the author's conviction that man cannot apprehend the universe in a meaningful, objective...
...disrupted hundreds of thousands of lives, temporarily disabled the economy of four counties, and plainly revealed the dark side of nuclear power. The atomic-age pioneers in the rolling farmlands of Pennsylvania who had lived through the unnerving ordeal were left with emotions that ranged from simple and utter relief to seething anger at the combination of forces that had exposed them to such danger. Declared Middletown . Resident Ann Martin, who felt her past belief in the safety of the plant had been betrayed: "They ought to make sure that thing never opens again. They should knock it down...
...blame where it belongs." The only thing wrong with telecasters, as far as the New York University Phi Beta Kappa could see, was that ex-jock commentators on networks other than ABC don't talk too good. They "consider it a monumental task to utter a simple declarative sentence," complained Howard. Was the statue of the Spirit of Justice behind Cosell throwing her arms up to signal unsportsmanlike conduct...
...laughing matter for the Crimson, even though the team had a 10-5 win handed to them by an inept Boston College squad. The Eagle infield, which should team up with the "Three Stooges" outfield of MIT to form the utter defensive horror show, made three of the team's four errors and pushed across five unearned runs, better known as the margin of victory...