Word: currents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Current events in general, and African problems in particular, have met with the best reception. Indeed, Quincy's combination of this topic with the added attraction of speakers borrowed from the U.N. has brought as many as 180 undergraduates to the "open" meetings, and at least 15 students are doing the 100-page reading assignments required for the bi-weekly "closed" sessions. Lowell House is also offering a seminars on Africa, under the leadership of a former African Journalist. A more usual number of students (about eight) attend regularly...
...Bundy, who said that, "The survival of the present Cuban government constitutes a challenge to the ideals of the Latin American republics." Dean Bundy also, "asserted that it would be difficult for us not to support a movement on the part of true Latin American liberals to depose the current regime...
...result of the conference may be a decision to change the name of future gatherings. The current name is derived from Eaton's estate in Nova Scotia, where the first meeting was held in 1957. Three members of the U.S. Pugwash Committee have declared their intention to propose such a change, because "Since Mr. Eaton has continued to play an active and controversial role in political affairs, the scientists have felt that his continuing support of their conference may place them in the wrong light." Eaton was recently awarded the Lenin Peace Prize...
Russian scientists are especially good at theory, but none of the chapters in the book rise above the level of applied science. About the only novel idea is highways with cables carrying high-frequency current under their pavement. The electric field surrounding the cable, says Engineer U. A. Dolmatovsky, will hold automobiles out of contact with the ground and at the same time propel them forward at 150 m.p.h. There will be no accidents no matter how heavy the traffic, because automatically guided cars are free of human error. Such high-speed cars will operate only on main highways. Inside...
Laughter foreshadows the mature Nabokov's brilliance and, compared with a lot of current fiction, is well worth reading. But what might have been searing in the book is somehow merely slick or shallowly cynical. Nabokov's gift for the vivid image is already sparkling, but his characters slip into caricatures. A tendency the later Nabokov has largely suppressed, of confusing imagination with prestidigitation, gets the better of him here, and the deftly manipulated mirror he holds up to nature reflects not life but simply more mirrors...