Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY has as its key character a shining oblong object symbolizing a great extraterrestrial intelligence that has overseen mankind since the Pliocene age. Though it fails as drama, Stanley Kubrick's venture succeeds as dazzling visual...
Such a man is Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, partner in a major scientific discovery at the age of 29, a full member of the prestigious Academy of Sciences at 32 and now, at 47, a leading Soviet research physicist. Last week, after circulating underground for some time in Russia, an extraordinary manuscript by Sakharov was published in the U.S. by the New York Times. In it, the physicist boldly denounces major aspects of Soviet policy and practice, goes so far as to urge an East-West "convergence" to provide a safe and single world leadership. It is, as Library of Congress...
...tell a client: "Take it all or nothing." In Chicago, Walter Netsch, 48, is dubbed "the professor" by Owings. Research-oriented, he appeals especially to institutions, designed the Air Force Academy. Counterbalancing him is Bruce Graham, 42, a towering, beardless Lincoln who firmly believes that "this is a technocratic age, and technocracy pulls us together." He designed the highly engineered John Hancock building in Chicago, likes to use computers to figure out the precise calculations, such as how much aluminum can be pared from window frames (the answer saved Shell $200,000 in Houston). The driving force...
...tour begins in the courtyard with the gilded and tasseled coach that served Ludwig at his coronation in 1864, when he was, in Bismarck's words, a "beautiful girl" of 18. Inside, the displays begin with stage models for Wagner's operas. From the age of twelve, Ludwig was enthralled by the work of the composer, whose fascination with medieval legend he shared. Upon his accession to the throne, he summoned Wagner from Stuttgart, installed him in a Munich suburban house, bankrolled the first productions of his most famous operas. Atop the Munich Residence he built a huge...
...most common causes of irreparable, irreversible liver damage is a congenital abnormality of the bile ducts called biliary atresia, which behaves like a malignancy and usually proves fatal within 18 months of birth. The other cause is cancer itself, which may strike at any age...