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Amherst won this weekend because it outshot and outhustled its opponents. The Lord Jeffs got their heads on most of the serial drives, and muscled their way toward the loose balls. Often out-numbered in scraps near their goal, the Jeffs kept hammering away until the ball left the danger area...
...this intricate and wonderfully comic multi-act opera, Powell has restored the pleasure of wondering what will happen next-unknown in English fiction since the times of Dickens' serial novels...
Drilled Minds. A for Andromeda is a novelized version of a seven-part TV serial which ran last year on BBC, where it won an impressive 80% of Britain's viewing audience. It was co-authored by TV Scriptwriter John Elliot and Mathematician Fred Hoyle. 46. Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and a leading proponent of the theory of the expanding universe. Hoyle finds that writing science fiction (Ossian's Ride, The Black Cloud) is a "very useful relaxation" from work on his 15-year opus on astrophysics. Readers may find both interesting and irritating some Hoylean...
...Other Side. Certainly least undesirable from the company's point of view, but what about the man on the other side of the dial? Says Dr. Leo Goldberger, of N.Y.U.'s Research Center for Mental Health: "Long series of numbers, such as Army serial numbers, have come to connote loss of individual identity: one becomes-to add insult to injury-not only an insignificant cog in a great machine, but anonymous as well." Unpleasant things, he feels, are not only more difficult to memorize, but also more likely to be forgotten...
Substitute for Vitality. But Stravinsky, of all living composers, is the one who can least stand still; and today, after moving through the classicist waters of Pidcinella and Oedipus Rex, he has turned to the serial technique. He is as adept as ever at what he once regarded as the discipline of an alien school...