pumping surface waters from the Arctic Basin through the Bering Strait to the Pacific, therepulling the warm waters of the Atlantic through the Arctic and making worldwide ocean temperatures more uniform.
ot Satellites "Don't Look Now But . . .: The Soviet Satellite Accident and Some Lessons
in Space from It" by Milton Leitenberg, in Com-monweal (Sept. 15, 1978), 232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.
Until recently, public attention has been focused on the peaceful and scientific...
Marion Muller, in
The New Leader (Sept. 25, 1978), 212 Fifth
Ave., New York, N.Y. 10010
Americans are being inundated with culture. The mass marketing of art
through highly-publicized special exhibits (e.g., the Mona Lisa in 1963,
Michelangelo's Pieta in 1964, the "Treasures of Tutenkhamun" in 1978)
has drawn such enormous crowds that the viewing public seldom has
more than a brief glimpse of what is being shown. (More than 1 million
people pay to see the "Tut" exhibit...
Marion Muller, in
The New Leader (Sept. 25, 1978), 212 Fifth
Ave., New York, N.Y. 10010
Americans are being inundated with culture. The mass marketing of art
through highly-publicized special exhibits (e.g., the Mona Lisa in 1963,
Michelangelo's Pieta in 1964, the "Treasures of Tutenkhamun" in 1978)
has drawn such enormous crowds that the viewing public seldom has
more than a brief glimpse of what is being shown. (More than 1 million
people pay to see the "Tut" exhibit...
noise-reduction system that
takes the hiss out of stereo tapes, FM radios, and records, and allows for
sharper high and low tones (like the ominous low rumbling of the
mother ship in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
Walter Murch, who created the beautifully intricate "sounds track" of George Lucas's film, The Conversation, believes that the technical potential of film sound has been reached-now it is up to the movie directors to exploit it. With a general upgrading...
the shape
that's in your head, and never mind the one that's before your eyes."
Mark Twain's greatest work, writes Burde, was that which "drew
upon intuitive memory rather than studied observations." There was a
connection between writing and piloting-both require a special qual-
ity of memory-and Clemens dreaded the thought of failing as a writer
and being forced to make his living again as a pilot. He was unable to
sustain his imaginative identification with Horace Bix(who...
some U.S. investors in the early 1970s. The internal mismanagement, corruption, and bureaucratic red tape of the military-backed regime in Jakarta cannot be overlooked. However, the authors conclude, "It would seem a major setback for the West if Suharto's New Order, which gambled on the West, were to fall short of its goal because the West fell short of its promise."
China ' Economy' "Industrial Development in China:
1967-76 and 1976-78" Jan S. Prybla,
i?ro.~pectsGood in...
Her- Enmgy: Key to bert s.Levine and Daniel L. Bond, in The I~ASS~Z'S Wharton Magazine (Summer 19781, P.O.
Future
Box 58 1, Martinsville Center, Mar-tinsville, N.J. 08836.
For ten years, the Soviet Union has relied on Western technology to boost the sagging productivity of its domestic industries and massive purchases of grain to offset the failure of Soviet agriculture. Economists Levine, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Bond, of Stanford Re- search Institute, contend that this pattern wil...
Jonathan Kozol, in Harvard
Socialism Educational Review (August 1978),
Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cam- bridge, Mass. 02138.
In September 1960, Fidel Castro publicly vowed to teach more than 1 million illiterate adult Cubans to read and write in 12 months. The literacy campaign that followed, says Kozol, a visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was not only "a pedagogical victory unparalleled in the modern world" but helped turn Cuba into a socialist country.
Kozol...
living with the country's rural poor. The literacy campaign, says Kozol, turned "uto- pian kids" into "incipient socialists."
"The Palestinian Factor in the Lebanese
cysts Civil War" Michael C. Hudson, in The
of Tragedy Middle East Journal (Summer 1978), 1761
N Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Between February 1975 and November 1976, some 50,000 people were killed in Lebanon in a civil war in which Palestinians played a major role-as catalysts, combatants,...
Bringing Back "The Tax To End All Taxes: Where Is Henry George Now That We Need Him?" by David Hapgood, in American Heritage 'Single Tax" (April-May 1978), 383 West Center St.,
Marion, Ohio 43302.