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...frankness and sincerity likewise characterize her other books--Therese and Isabelle. The Woman with the Little Fox, and The Taxi. This latest novel, written entirely in dialogue, appears at first as innocent as a children's story; a slim, airy volume decorated with whimsical sketches of a multi-colored taxi standing under childishly drawn trees. But there was no innocence in Leduc's life, and there is none in her art. The Taxi is a story of children, but it is no Petit Prince. Leduc's children are beyond their years in sophistication, their age of innocence informed with...
Cleopatra is the most multi-faceted of Shakespeare's women. Chameleonic and maddeningly inconsistent, she reflects at some point almost every trait and emotion in the book. Women yearn to tackle the part, for it is to an actress what Hamlet is to an actor: the ultimate test...
...eastern third of the city, the concrete towers of sprawling MIT and the barren public housing blocs in the Model Cities area from an uneasy triangle with the crowded frame duplexes in the multi-ethnic working-class neighborhood of East Cambridge. Tensions are strong in this area: the percentage of blacks in East Cambridge is the lowest in the city, while the percentage in the neighboring public housing is the highest...
...monitoring of pollution. Next month, as a forerunner of such a system, the U.S. plans to launch an experimental satellite, known as ERTS (for Earth Resources Technology Satellite). A stubby, 1,965-lb. package that resembles an overgrown moth, the satellite will be equipped with three television cameras, a multi-wave-length sensor and a data collection system that can relay environmental information from as many as 1,000 automatic monitoring stations on earth. If the test is successful, ERTS-type orbiters could be used to sound an alarm whenever there is a threat of serious environmental danger: contamination...
...documents seemed hastily written but reflected the view that Afro-American Studies was a unique area of study which needed to be examined from a multi-disciplinary approach. The memoranda rejected the idea of joint faculty appointments and urged that the Harvard Administration appropriate more money in order to induce top-notch faculty to come to Harvard...