Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, will speak on Chairman Mao and his meaning for the United States at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland Junior Common Room...
...attempts to give their world of murder some shape, some meaning. Alfred feels that the key to all is the "free floating constellation of dots" that makes up a newspaper photo. Carol decides, "We need a army!. . . An electrically charged fence. TV cameras in every room. . . . A return to common sense. . . . lobotomies for anyone who earns less than ten thousand a year Freedom!" But ultimately the family discovers that the only sanity left to them is sticking a rifle out their apartment window and joining in the blood bath. Director Alan Arkin has staged all this with the frenzy...
...most common disagreements arise when experts are pressed to take a third step away from the defendant's present condition. With few exceptions, they are asked to decide whether his mental state during the crime made him fit the legal definition of a word which few psychiatrists use: insanity. Under the 126-year-old M'Naghten rule, insanity is not knowing what one is doing, or not knowing that it is wrong. However, many people who can tell right from wrong are nonetheless patients in mental hospitals, and some courts permit more elastic definitions-such as the Durham...
Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature or works of man all seem to be related to a sequence of numbers named for 13th century Mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. The earnest mathematics buffs of the California-based Fibonacci Association keep examining the phenomenon. The more they investigate, members insist, the more convinced they become that Fibonacci numbers pervade the world...
With a court test ahead that could drag on for two years or more, LTV stock became increasingly unpopular. LTV common, which hit a high of $135 last May, closed last week at $59. And Jones & Laughlin dropped so much that Ling's $425 million investment was, for the moment at least, worth only $290 million...