Word: circularity
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...semi-circular building, which will provide a northern terminus to Holmes Field, will provide the Law School with space in the form of 35 faculty offices, two 50-person lecture halls, three seminar rooms and a computer center...
...Firmon E. Hardenbergh, chief of opthamology at the University Health Services (UHS), traveled a circular path in reaching his current post...
...circular structure of time in this family saga reminds one, inevitably, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, However, with its wistful quality and its preoccupation with love in extreme old age, Hijuelos' book bears a closer affinity to Love in the Time of Cholera. A Pantagruclian gusto concerning sea, food, and bodily functions also informs the novel...
...hostile older brother, Mick. The men continually talk at one another but never connect because they are unable to understand themselves. Each has a dream which he cannot act upon. The characters' constant repetition of their stories and of each other's words in absurdly circular dialogue provides both the play's humor and its tragic core...
Imagine a world where time is circular, where everything repeats itself exactly, endlessly. In this world "every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word" has happened a million times before and will be repeated a million more times in the future. Or imagine a world where time runs backwards, or is discontinuous, or takes the form of a nightingale. These are some of the concepts of time that Alan Lightman, who teaches physics and writing at M.I.T., describes in his new novel, Einstein's Dreams...