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...their names were John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. That inarticulate rage should fill the vacuum is not really surprising...
...1900s, drawing homage from Mark Twain and Enrico Caruso before capturing Flo Ziegfeld as her husband. Her fame came from her skill as a comedienne in the years after 1930, when she appeared as a flibbertigibbet in scores of plays (Her Master's Voice, Mrs. January and Mr. X) and movies (Topper, The Wizard of Oz, Hi Diddle Diddle). "Oh," she once wrote, "that sad and bewildering moment when you are no longer the cherished darling, but must turn the corner and try to be funny...
Yesterday-Malcolm X's birthday-black students held a solidarity rally at the Business School and then went to Roxbury in the afternoon to participate in a solidarity march. "We indicated at that time to the Roxbury community that we, the black students of the Harvard Business School, were on strike and urged them to manifest support." Walker said...
...reviewer of Professor X's (Daniel Boorstin) The Sociology of the Absurd [April 13] missed what is probably the most delightful point of satire against society found in the book: the dedication "To Dick and Gloria Dorspn-Motif No. D132." Professor Dorson is director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and D132 refers to a unit of classification-the motif-used by folklorists in breaking down tales into component parts for analysis. Motif No. D132 is "transformation...
Other scientists see an even more exciting application: color television sets the size of transistor radios. Using a hundred times less voltage than conventional sets, tiny battery-powered ceramic TV screens would show purer colors than conventional sets, without generating hazardous X rays. They could also be used as an animated color transparency. Placed in a light projector, they could flash large TV images against a movie screen or even a plain white wall...