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...flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...
...groundwork for White and Pillemer's current research was laid in 1977, when Brown and James Kulik published the paper in which the term "flashbulb memory" was proposed--a study of memories of President Kennedy's assassination Based on that project, Pillemer went on to apply the same methods to conduct similar inquiries into memories of the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan and women's memories of the onset of menstruation...
...ending of the long paper, more exhaustion than explanation, reveals the fact that the author invested in critical research more than he/she could spare from critical thinking. Especially in the first pages, the groundwork is laid (with obvious effort and some skill) for a major edifice that the paper never completes or inhabits. Gradually the paper begins to slip away from coherence as it tries to keep hold of lots of plays and critics, and so while it provides a suggestive survey of references to astronomy in Shakespeare, it never has time to pull them together into any sharp, integral...
...APPROXIMATELY a year before the war, the Reagan Administration, primarily in the person of United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, had been vigorously courting Argentina. Kirkpatrick, hoping to gain practical support for the United States positions concerning Nicaragua and El Salvador, was laying the groundwork for lifting the arms embargo imposed by Jimmy Carter, and according to Argentine sources, had indicated that the U.S. would give any military excursion to the Falklands a sympathetic hearing. But the magnitude of the British response put the United States in the difficult position of deciding where its loyalties lay in the conflict--realizing that...
...Undergraduate Council starts off its second semester tomorrow night with the election of new officers, and student leaders and College officials are optimistic that the groundwork set last term will help in overcoming the legacy of ineffectiveness that has plagued past student governments at Harvard...