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...Fire on the Moon seemed familiar, if Aquarius often strained for effect and struck false resonances until he reminded one of Dimitri Tiomkin's movie music, there was still much to admire and enjoy. The description of the prelaunch press conference was perfection. There was Von Braun, completely at ease with his Hitler past, translating the question of a German reporter and then bringing the house down by apologizing to the Japanese correspondents that he couldn't do the same for them. Although not the ranking NASA official present, he stole the show. Aquarius respected...
...first reading, it seems just too simple to be really good, but the subtlety of the poem only emerges after several exposures. The translation is almost totally literal, and thus loses some of the devices which make the original succeed. An effective alliteration ("die Wande der Wiiste wissen von Liebe") is lost in translation as "the walls of the desert know of love." The strict rendering into unwieldy English detracts immeasurably from the starkness of the German. Words which can be used in German poetry, like Gestirne, or Jahrtausend, are rendered in unwieldy English words- constellation or millenium. In fact...
...with the pigs. With Mick Jagger and Joseph Rhodes Jr. Dean May announces Bernard Bailyn and Roger Rosenblatt to head Committee on Filmmaking and Curriculum Reform. Bailyn announces interim subcommittee for procedures to hammer out students. At extreme left is still from movie, showing SUPERSTAR (smiling) and F. SKIDDY von STADE JR. dedicating Mather House (center) as a day care facility...
...Kirkland House and "the unfortunate collapse" of the Mather House tower, which toppled into the Charles over the summer. SDS president Laszlo Pasztor '73 admits that the number of names on the petition is disappointingly low, but comments, "Remember, that's half the student body." At right, MASTER von STADE goes down with his House, as the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (above, with champagne) looks...
...palace of the Bourbons, the rulers of Germany's 25 independent and quarrelsome states gather to savor the fruits of their victory over France's armies. The Franco-Prussian War has given the Germans something that eluded them for centuries?unity. As the architect of that unity, Count Otto von Bismarck looks on, gripping the long spike of his Prussian helmet, while Prussia's King Wilhelm proclaims the establishment of the German Empire. Historian Thomas Carlyle hails the German victory in a letter to the Times of London: "That noble, patient, deep, pious and solid Germany should be at length...