Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four staffers have just written first novels. Says Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, whose book. The Eighth Sin, will appear this spring: "Every journalist is always writing a novel in his head because we are all self-dramatizing types." Associate Editor James Atwater drew on the trouble in Northern Ireland for Time Bomb; Writer Christopher Byron is completing The Holder of the Present, set in Greece; Contributor Richard Schickel's Another I, Another You, a love story about two divorced people, will be published...
...high lyric role ("Manon with no clothes on," says Sills), and its range is brutal: from below middle C to high D. The show is a loan of the same production Sills scored a success in last season at the San Francisco Opera. Next December she will appear in her last new Met production, Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Two composers are writing operas for her, which are due to be introduced in the spring of 1979. They are Gian Carlo Menotti's Juana la Loca, about the mad daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, for the San Diego Opera...
...philosophy was confined mostly to intellectuals and was centered largely on ideas, not on devotional practices. There is no evidence that Emerson ever sat in a full lotus. Today, on the other hand, not only are large numbers of people who are in no sense "intellectuals" involved, but they appear more interested in actual religious practices than in doctrinal ideas. The recent wave of interest in Oriental forms of spirituality seems both broader and deeper than in the ones that preceded...
Initially, seismologists thought that the Palmdale uplifting was the result of tiny fissuring that occurs in rocks when they are subjected to great stress, expanding the volume of the rock. But the bulge appears much too large to be explained only by this effect, which is known as dilatancy and has already been used to make experimental earthquake predictions. Instead, scientists are leaning increasingly to the idea that other factors may be involved, notably a concept called elastic deformation, in which moving land masses snag against each other and force some of the earth's crust to roll...
Finally, while parts of the fault appear to be jammed, recent work by Caltech scientists-using ultraprecise radio telescopes as measuring instruments and signals from distant quasars (see following story) as benchmarks-shows that there has been relative motion of up to 20 cm. (8 in.) in only three years between the opposing plates just south of the San Gabriel mountains. That motion, which may be rapid by San Andreas standards, also mystifies the researchers. Says Caltech's Peter MacDoran, who has been directing these measurements. "What we need is a nice, big nondestructive earthquake that we can intensely...