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...story is one of decline, fall and trivialization. Through slow and elaborate psychological artifice, death loses respect. The rise of science and rationalism in the 17th and 18th centuries disrupted the traditional divine order and laid the basis for Model 3: "remote and imminent death." This is a bold construct in which the beliefs and rituals curbing natural behavior were breached. Sex and death, two of nature's most powerful expressions, were confused; the macabre became eroticized. Ariès illustrates this slippery thesis with Sade's tales of necrophilia...
...land costs, high interest rates and rising equipment or operational costs, as well as to recover from drought and other disasters. FHA has since become a helpful big brother to much of agricultural America. It aids in building water and sewage systems for small towns, and provides loans to construct low-cost housing for the rural poor. Last year FHA spent about $14.5 billion in loans and public construction grants. Reagan proposes to cut this lending by 25%, saving more than $400 million...
...protons, neutrons, and electrons that comprise ordinary matter by about 10 billion to 1. The average cubic centimeter in the universe contains about 450 of these relic neutinos. Schram contends that if these particles have even a tiny mass, unlike the current description of conventional physics, scientists can construct a radically different view of the universe and explain several cosmological riddles...
...things linked together by their ideal roundness. You cannot keep a soap bubble in a box, or fit the planets into one; but starting with two of the Dutch clay bubble pipes he acquired at the New York World's Fair in 1939, Cornell was able to construct an entire tone poem about effigies and similarities: an 18th century French planetary map, two wineglasses (distantly recalling Dante's crystal heaven), a cork ball, a fossil ammonite unwinding its eternal spiral...
...built a machine that would automatically construct patterns of sound according to the laws he'd uncovered. He had banks of oscillators and mixers--in fact, he modified an ordinary electronic organ for this part of the apparatus--which were controlled by his composing machine...