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...Bruce Springsteen appeared a few years ago, he might have been an important person in each of our lives. As it is, he is a "rising young star." We are to catalogue his influences (allegedly Dylan, but sounds like Van Morrison with laryngitis) and praise the accomplishments of his brilliant talent. But luckily Springsteen is better than all this. He has walled off the cultural miasma which surrounds him, and has created a music which is anachronistically exciting without being a historical relic...
Mark Raterink combined with Bob Carrington to provide the scoring punch as B.C. battled back to tie the game on a basket by Will Morrison with three minutes remaining...
...Morrison. If sound movies had been invented two years ago, the first talkie, The Jazz Singer, would have featured Van Morrison. He is one of the least predictable, most innovative singers of rock--as inimitable in his own way as Dylan. How he wound up in Harvard Square Theater is a mystery. But he will be there tonight. Pray that he sings "Tupelo Honey." Thursday, March 14 at the Harvard Square Theater...
...present controversy. Was the case in its entirety a frameup concocted by the F.B.I.? Or, if indeed espionage did take place, was it really of such consequence that the death penalty should even have been considered? The answer to the second question was stated succinctly by scientist Phillip Morrison who holds a co-patent on the atomic bomb, on the television program The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: "There is no secret to the atomic bomb." Clearly the Rosenbergs were executed for invalid reasons in the sense that it was simply impossible to attribute Soviet possession...
...course consists of 20 "lectures," which are printed every Thursday in 258 newspapers, having a combined circulation of 19.5 million. They are written by such prominent "faculty" members as Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, Yale Economist Henry C. Wallich and M.I.T. Physicist Philip Morrison. The articles are all entitled "America and the Future of Man" (the formal name of the course) and cover history, psychology, sociology, social ethics and political science. In last week's installment, for example, Garrett J. Hardin, professor of human ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, reviewed the ethical and social problems...