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Drowned Egyptians. Thera's eruption may have had even more far-reaching effects. It is thought by some to have affected the Exodus and caused the ten plagues of Egypt 450 miles to the southeast. Professor Anghelos Galanopoulos, head of the Athens observatory's seismological institute, believes that...
Dartmouth is no patsy, as the Indians' deadlock with Yale last week showed. The Yale match went right down to the last two doubles contests, which were finally called because of darkness. The scary thing is that Yale counted on defeating Dartmouth in the spots where Harvard does not have...
Cortázar, 51, an Argentine novelist now living in Paris, has already evoked comparisons with Sterne, Proust and Joyce, and certainly Hopscotch's obfuscation is occasionally relieved by glints of unmistakable skill. Here and there a single sentence escapes the darkness with epigrammatic force: "All madness is a...
But that scarcely excuses the darkness. To compare Cortázar to Sterne, who was one of his models, is to measure the vast difference between a severely disciplined though innovationist literary-talent and one that, however sophisticated, is hung up on literary games.
Layzer, however, argues that any light from stars less than a billion years old would make an "insignificant" contribution to the brightness or darkness of the sky. The microwave energy from the early universe, he said, is a far more important factor, and only because this is so dispersed and...