Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other formidable problems in communicating with an alien race. At what frequency would a civilization listen for and transmit messages? Many scientists have proposed the 21-cm. band, which is the wave length of emissions from the hydrogen atom, the most abundant element in the universe. Another hurdle might well be the choice of a language that would be universally understood by intelligent beings (see diagram, page 56). Also, because man has so recently entered a technological state, any civilization capable of receiving earthly signs might be far more sophisticated. Would it bother to reply? Possibly not, according to Sagan...
Photography has long been alien to the Fogg's didactic galleries of art classics. Whether this embargo was nurtured by cautious skeptics of the photographic medium as an artistic medium--cautious guardians of academic certainty--or by myopic observers of artistic development, its repeal is apparent in the Fogg's first representative showing of their own photographic collections. Master Photographs asks its audience to view these works on a level of creative competence equal to that of the paintings lining neighboring walls, but not always with the same aesthetic semantics applied to painting...
...Derain feared it presaged Picasso's suicide, and its hacked dislocation alarmed Braque, who compared the performance to "someone drinking gasoline and spitting fire." Perhaps it is too simple to say that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that it presented the artists in Picasso's circle with a coup d'etat against every visual convention they knew. It was a totally radical painting-so much so, indeed, that even Picasso...
...Immigration Service, who is also vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. American Federation of Government Employees. Doran had singled out Mrs. Banuelos' plant because a raid there would get national attention. That way, he says, "the American people could really know the facts about the illegal alien situation in this country." When Rosenberg learned the story behind the raid, he upbraided Doran for insubordination. Later the Immigration Service revealed it had received another tip that there were as many as 100 more mojados still working for Banuelos. But any further raids were being postponed for "lack of manpower...
...which had looked into Mrs. Banuelos' background and apparently failed to find out about the previous raids. But the President, of all people, knows how easy it is for a mojado to go undetected. Before he was nabbed by FBI men, Francisco Martinez Llamas, an illegal Mexican alien, worked for two days last summer as a gardener on the grounds of the Western White House at San Clemente...