Word: interconnectedness
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Except for the prehistory, Michener paces his narrative well. He organizes the book as a series of interconnected novellas, focusing each on one or two central characters. The tale of the shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis...
NEGOTIATIONS about all aspects of the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship are hardly new. Over the past 95 years, the two institutions have found it necessary to work out agreements concerning almost every sphere of mutual interest--undergraduates, housing, faculty, maintenance, etc. This year, committees are studying several of these parts of...
Shuttling Gas. Unlike typical internal combustion engines, the Stirling engine is powered by heat from an external source. In the Ford-Philips design (see diagram), hydrogen gas is heated by a burner, which can run on virtually any kind of fuel. The sealed-in hydrogen then expands, enters one cylinder...
FINALLY, Vogelgesang does little to resolve the dilemma that all intellectuals must face. That of morality versus political reality, conviction versus officous power. She does not confront the debate on the proper course for an intellectual faced with the choice of accepting a position of power but knowing that in...
The first three interconnected books are extraordinarily good. Mishima uses the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation to link various characters throughout the 20th century with changing manners, politics and national psychology in Japan. In The Temple of Dawn, he also discourses widely and sometimes pedantically about Buddhist theory; that is unfamiliar...