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...learn untold lessons from the Great Books of the World, but speculative knowledge does not always lead to virtuous action. The philosophers and educators of yesteryear knew this axiom intimately. This is why they considered physical training so essential to a humane education: it allowed one to work on the principles of action that one had learned in classes and thinking...
...other words, the appeal of Datamatch is born of a deep disillusionment with any natural prospects for a social life. In a peculiarly 90's twist, the technical precision of the computer fills the role that spontaneity--or a good-hearted matchmaker--played in the more personal days of yesteryear...
Director George Lucas has come out with a film that has "Billion Dollar Baby" stamped all over it. "Star Wars" is a rousing crowdpleaser, a reaffirmation that the good guys still win some of the time, and an affectionate needle at the legendary Flash Gordon movies of yesteryear all wrapped into one very slick package. And while devotees of the sci-fi movie genre may not take too kindly to the implicit parody of their chosen cult contained in Lucas' film, the dazzling special effects of "Star Wars" by themselves should prove sufficient to eclipse any lingering qualms they might...
...complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven: the male counterpart of a swallow). Beyond these terms are detailed entries about notable spies of yesteryear (Daniel Defoe, Christopher Marlowe), as well as those of more recent vintage (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Whittaker Chambers, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Jonathan Pollard...
...sense, there's no point in quibbling with the star's performance; nobody else that I know of could do such a show, and deLima did it well, with humor and grace. Like Winsome Brown of yesteryear (our short institutional memory allows no lasting monument to her toothy glory), she is the rare college performer who has the confidence and power to go it all alone...