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...many subcultures. Creeds and races live unto themselves, often by choice. Parents and children often live worlds apart. There are innumerable social islands of different inter ests, occupations, tastes, hobbies, snobberies and ethics. There are countless voluntary organizations that provide a vital middle ground between two extreme possibilities?a chaotic agglomeration of isolated individuals on the one hand, a totally regimented society on the other...
...that Nikita took Fidel on a shopping tour at the new Moskva department store. Fidel paused at the leather goods display, asked about a belt, but quickly confessed: "I forgot to bring my money." Cracked Khrushchev, who doles out $1,000,000 a day to keep Cuba's chaotic economy from collapsing entirely: "I can guarantee his credit...
...older criticisms of NSA--that the structure of the Association made opinion unsure--were to an extent valid. The structure of the Association through which a given school, or individual is represented is complex and often chaotic...
...matter seemed simple enough. There were neutrons and protons nestled in the nucleus of the atom, electrons spinning around it, and photons to carry electromagnetic radiation. That seemed to be it. Then, after the big bomb-building breakthrough and the construction of billion-electron volt accelerators, scientists discovered a chaotic array of new particles. Some were so short-lived that their age was measured in less than a billionth of a second, their very existence inferred from the erratic tracks they left in bubble and cloud chambers. Some left no tracks at all. The list proliferated to the sound...
...time passed, Cézanne shunned even still life as overly contrived nature and sought out the chaotic, uncultivated thickets and hillsides of Provence's virgin countryside. Among his most stunning works are views of the barren rock walls of an abandoned quarry that are so economically suggested by a few pencil lines and scattered smears of color that they presage modern abstractions. "Nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her." Cézanne wrote. Hour after hour, facing the warm vistas of Provence, his eye sounded the depths of nature, and, dipping his brush...