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...evidence seems conclusive. After her mentor in the hospital's neurology department, Dr. Mary Andriola, sent the research abstract to medical journals without listing Torres' age, the study seemed to get the attention it deserved. Two weeks ago, Torres picked up the phone in her Holworthy suite only to discover that one of the journals was interested, so interested in fact that they wanted to include it in an upcoming edition. The research results and conclusions will be presented at a national neurological meeting and will be published in either the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England...
...case, volunteers were rapidly shown words and asked to determine if they were abstract or concrete. In the other situation, test participants were asked about the physical form of the word--whether they were upper or lower case letters. In both instances, no one was told to memorize anything. Twenty minutes later, the subjects were shown groups of words and asked if they had seen them during the test...
Some of the sensibility common to the work ofthe New York School poets was learned from thevisual arts, Abstract Expressionism in particular,and much of the work Koch read at the SignetTuesday evening exhibited what Robert Creeley hascalled "that lovely, usefully uncluttereddirectness of perception" shared between New Yorkpainting and New York poetry. Following a verynice introduction by Signet president ScottRothkopf '99, he took his seat at the front of alovely, ornate old room in the Signet Societybuilding, and, sipping occasionally from a glassof Coke, read for nearly an hour, following thatdirectness of perception through poems fromseveral of his recent works...
Working with jazzy back beats and the smooth abstract poetics of rapper Q-Tip, The Love Movement offers a few of the classic Tribe head bobbers, but the majority of the album tends to be devoted to relaxed raps about love. Busta Rhymes joins in on "Steppin' It Up," but the synergy of past ventures doesn't quite reappear, and the song, as do many aspects of the album, sounds halting and deliberate. Q-Tip waxes an eloquent soliloquy in "The Love" about love in all forms, but for every one of these slick arrangements, there is a lame...
Last May, the Committee rejected the students' proposals, saying they were too similar and too abstract. The students stayed in contact throughout the summer and worked to clarify their plans of study...