Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event that came to be called the "well-known accident," Clinton Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
...novels are the sort of fiction that drives literate people toward Judith Krantz. "This muck cripples consciousness," he proclaimed of pop in 1968. "Therefore no concessions should be made to it." Sorry. Concessions were made. "By the late 1960s," writes Princeton Scholar Louis Menand, "popular culture had permeated every aspect of life with an inexorability that was beyond the powers of any sort of intellectual antagonism to resist...
...many of the traits associated with Type-A behavior, including fast-paced speech and eating and a sense of urgency about time, do not seem to increase the risk of heart attack. Of all the supposedly dangerous Type-A traits, said Redford Williams of Duke University, "only the hostility aspect appears to be related to disease." Like many at the conference, Williams was disturbed by the recent findings. Said he: "It would be nice to put a bubble over the research and not let the rest of the world see it until we know what's going...
...equation. But while South African troops drive through townships at random with guns blazing, and while entire families are transported to bantustans where there is no rain, jobs, or health care, and while the Bushmen are dying in forced migration from the Namib Desert, then perhaps recognizing the genocideal aspect of apartheid and comparing it to German fascism is not so unreasonable...
...chairman of the department, Louis J. Bakanowsky, says that the study of visual arts is "an important aspect of life, and of an undergraduate education...