Word: withe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But Robert Heinlein, usually master of quick exposition and blood-and-blasters, wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, and it is fine. It is not about the toys men play with, or the fall of governments. It presents a new man and a new experience-and a world is built...
The book is about the twenty-first century: but it's no guided tour. Reading it is like grappling with a huge primary source. You can walk around and hear what the people are saying: Hitripping, Yaginol, muckers, yonderboys, Shalmaneser, Yatakang, Engrelay satelsery. Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, the shiggie circuit...
In the end, nothing is resolved: no governments fall, no aliens invade, no decisions are reached. The universe is insane, and good sci-fi-like Dune and Stand on Zanzibar -is beginning to cope with this. You see . . . you see? It's so very lonely, you're 2,000 lightyears...
Early this month, coach Bill Brooks had expressed concern about the two tough meets with Army and Navy before Christmas vacation, but his team coasted right through both contests to win by wide margins and remain undefeated.
The Crimson took first and third in the next two events, with sophomore Al Ackerman winning a close 200-free and captain Mike Cahalan handily beating Navy's captain. Cap Parlier, in the 50-free. Cahalan later won the 100-free for another double victory. His two times were 21.9...