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...abandon religion and embrace Communism. To Chambers, "the crux of this matter is the question whether God exists. If God exists, a man cannot be a Communist, which begins with the rejection of God. But if God does not exist, it follows that Communism, or some suitable variant of it, is right...
...variant on the Expulsion theme is seen in the fellow who, in his first two years at Harvard severs the umbilical ties wiwth his teenage civilization with ostensible success. But sometime in his junior or senior year he develops an insatiable craving for high school culture. Oddly, he is most often one who despised that way of life as a high school senior. But suddenly, having always hated rock 'n' roll, he finds himself singing surf songs in the shower, going to drive-in movies, to Saturday night "Y" dances, bowling, and travelling out with the boys...
...model of compact efficiency. Arrivals are greeted by a circular bicycle park with partially glassed roof. Jacobsen, who also dabbles in interiors, designed everything from the college silverware and china to its door handles. The high table is lighted with rows of soft Jacobsen lamps. Rooms feature a variant of Jacobsen's famed, womblike "egg chair" ("You want to sit back protected...
Private Pyrotechnics? One group fighting hard to bring back private pyrotechnics is, unsurprisingly, the fireworks manufacturers. "Safe and sane" fireworks are what they are plugging-mostly some variant of sparklers-and they have been successful in getting some state legislatures to mitigate their blanket bans...
...Monster & Friends. The Kennedy Playground is only the latest variant in a slow latter-day transformation of the old slide and swing. The slides are now apt to be shaped like oversized caterpillars, and space stations, poly-blocks and geodesic domes are standard equipment in better playgrounds across the U.S. "Creative play" is one of the country's newest fancies...