Word: circularity
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...relativeity. In happens that Einstein as a boy experienced an "orgy" of revulsion against all traditional religious teachings. During my graduate study of history and philosophy of science, I became convinced that his special theory and all of its claims of evidential support are invalidated by unwarranted assumptions and circular reasoning; but trying to communicate this measage has proven a formidable task. Herbert Dingle, a renegade from the physics establishment, has tried to do so for many years in England; his new book Science at the Crossroads tells an appalling story of intolerant thought-suppression by scientific journals. An even...
That night, the judges, two professors from local colleges, select forty-five works in different media. Cooper comments afterwards that one of the judges must have been color-blind--the one that awarded a prize to a large constructed painting. The painting consists of two semi-circular canvases in between which four oblong panels dangle from brightly colored plastic chains. On each panel is the letter L, O, V or E, each in a different loud color. Over the letters are painted objects like sea shells and flowers...
...Damascus, then back to Alexandria to Amman to Jerusalem to Damascus. Only one airplane flies that kind of Middle East shuttle: Air Force Two, with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger aboard. Last week and this week, the blue and white Boeing 707 was once again flying its circular itinerary as Kissinger attempted to work out disengagement between Israel and Syria. This time, it was not a smooth flight...
THOMASINE & BUSHROD are a couple of stickup artists who roam the West after the turn of the century, shooting up citizens, falling in love (with each other) and distributing the plunder of the territorial banks among the poor folk. According to their wanted circular, they are "known to have many friends among Indians, Mexicans, Poor Whites and Other Colored People." They are pursued by a rabid white marshal, and naturally they meet a violent...
Plans for the Dunster House courtyard include removing existing walks and grass spaces and replacing them with a large circular area of grass in the center, surrounded by blue patio stone...