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...last count). At least so says Arthur Koestler, the novelist and interpreter of science who once compared Rhine's work favorably with that of Copernicus. In his recent book The Roots of Coincidence, Koestler calls on his considerable skills as a popularizer of modern quantum physics to buttress his beliefs. Matter, he notes, quoting Bertrand Russell, is "a convenient formula for describing what happens where it isn't." An absurdity? Not to the new generation of quantum physicists, says Koestler. No longer able to accept the atom as simply a miniature solar system in which negatively charged electrons...
...farmer, on the other hand, has been enjoying considerable prosperity-helped in large part by Government policy, only recently revised, of pumping up subsidies and holding down production in order to buttress prices. Last year the nation's 9.5 million farm population had a record total net income of $19.2 billion, a 19% jump over the year before. Agriculture Department experts report that it will be even higher this year. In 1972, the average cost of food per household rose $60, to $1,311. Of the increase, the farmer received $42, while the remaining $18 was divided up among...
...granting a rate increase to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week, the Federal Communications Commission took an action that will help to buttress the U.S. stock market, prop up capital spending and hold down interest charges. When AT&T rates and profits rise, many things happen in the broader realm of business. First, AT&T stock gets a lift; because it is the most widely held issue of all-3,750,000 investors directly own 549 million shares-a rise in "telephone" tends to give a psychological impetus to the whole market. Second, the company can more easily draw upon...
...Christian humanism, in the belief that every man had basic principles which could be appealed to by the sincere and talented artist Fiedler, on the other hand hopes for some mass tribal evolution. And he misread even the processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity? And even if they participate en masse in the creation of a body of cliches, might that...
...hair separates that Hamlet-like image of self-debate from the vulgarities of Nazi youthcult art; the exaggerated slenderness verges on caricature but nowhere falls into it, and to look at the structural grace of the body, with its bent leg thrusting into the pelvis like a flying buttress, is to realize how well Lehmbruck could surround a figure with active space instead of merely displacing air with bronze. Perhaps if Lehmbruck had lived to reconcile the contradictions in his art, he would have been - against his expectations - a better abstract sculptor than he was a figurative...