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AS A FILM about progress--physical, social, and technological--Stanley Kubrick's huge and provocative 2001: A Space Odyssey remains essentially linear until its extraordinary ending. In the final transfiguration, director Kubrick and co-author Arthur Clarke (Childhood's End) suggest that evolutionary progress may in face be cyclical, perhaps...
TWO major progressions have been made: an evolutionary progression in the discovery of the tool, and a technological progression inherent in the trip to Jupiter. The discovery of the monolith has preceded each advance, and with it the conjunction of the sun and moons of a given planet, as well...
SEVERAL less-than-affirmative ideas can be advanced. The monolith is a representation of an extraterrestrial force which keeps mankind (and finally Bowman) under observation, and manipulates it at will. Man's progress is not of his own making, but a function of the monolith--man cannot predict, therefore, the...
THE Review isn't easy reading. The list of contributors is impressive, ranging from Coleman himself (tracing the evolution of the concept of equal educational opportunity) to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Thomas F. Pettigrew and Kenneth Clark. But the editors apparently decided to restrict authors as little as possible, outlining three...
Hungarian Party Theoretician Zoltan Komocsin warned that events in Czechoslovakia have "an anarchistic character," but the biggest storm broke last week when East German Party Ideologist Kurt Hager accused Dubček and his men of "filling the West with the hope that Czechoslovakia will be pulled into the maelstrom...