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...purpose of a writer like me," Michener explains in a separately printed booklet about Centennial, "is to create a universe." The reader is warned. "Three billion, six hundred million years ago," Michener begins, "the crust had formed, and the cooling earth lay exposed to the developing atmosphere." The next 110 pages are taken up with discourses on magma and glaciers, the planet's prehistoric upheavals. Then come the prehistoric beasts, which the author vaguely anthropomorphizes: a lovely Diplodocus wandering in the muck "toward dusk on a spring evening one hundred and thirty-six million years ago" finds herself growing...
...nuclear powers decide to take the fateful step, there is little to stop them. Constructing an atomic bomb requires access to no secret information. Even in 1945, the basic principles of nuclear weapons were widely known. A booklet, declassified in 1961 and now available for $4 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, describes in detail-complete with diagrams-the technical problems the U.S. encountered constructing its first bomb. It is not surprising that four years ago a precocious 14-year-old sketched the workings of a nuclear explosive and included it as part of a bomb threat that terrified Orlando...
...publishes a regular newsletter, "'Cliffe Notes," it will bring you "A Woman's Guide to Harvard" in your registration folder, and it is behind the distribution of the prize booklet to all students at registration. All in all, it is the most viable liason Radcliffe women have to other women in the University...
...this essay an unoriginal title. Lenin wrote a pamphlet in 1902 called "What Is to be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement." Its purpose was to overcome the prevailing mood of uncertainty and doubt among Russian Marxists, to inspire a transformation from talk to action. And Lenin's inspirational booklet was not the first to use the title. It comes originally from a socialist novel written by Nikolai Chernyshevsky in 1862: What Is to Be Done? Stories about New People. One of the heroes in the novel, Rakhmetov, is portrayed as the ideal radical. Rakhmetov comes from a wealthy landowning...
...eligible for at least some of the prize money at Harvard. As a starter, all students will receive information about prizes in their registration folders. "The feeling before always was that if a person was interested in a prize, he or she could take the initiative to get the booklet," Walzer says. "That worked pretty well, but not well enough, and it may be one of the reasons why women have come out on the short...