Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as the Cubist painters redirected attention away from the representational content of a painting and concentrated it upon the surface of the canvas as a flat plane, so Facade, by reducing words to a musical unintelligibility, explores the surface texture--the facade--of sound. With passages read at break neck speed like...
Editorial content, in Goldman's eyes is yin, the spiritual side of his magazine. Hence, you guessed it, advertising copy is yang or the material side of Journal. A swift Zen incantation, and presto! solvency, self-reliance, "independence from the artificial needs fostered by a consumer society" and a readership...
...staff of the Haymarket Peoples Fund has objections to both the tone and inaccurate content of the article "Cambridge Socialist Group Seeks Student Donations" published in The Crimson Wednesday, March 2. This article covered Haymarket's forum for Harvard-Radcliffe students the previous evening "Robin Hood Was Right: Funding Movements for Social Change...
Massachusetts' remaining Yankees--the Sargents and the Saltonstalls--fare no better, as their isolated indifference and calculated impotence is attacked. Lupo sees the Yankees as content to control the city through its finances, operating from plush State Street bank offices, escaping to North Shore farmhouses and summer homes on the Cape. In one of the more effective vignettes in the book, Lupo juxtaposes a Republican-sponsored cocktail party in placid Dover with the frantic, non-stop efforts of Kevin White to cool the city down...
Some studies at the center are much more mundane. Jack Eddy, a visiting scientist at the Center, has shown how the amount of radioactive carbon in tree rings can be related to sunspots. Increased solar activity leads to warmer climates, Eddy says, raising the radiocarbon content of the rings. Another group of astronomers, working with radio telescopes designed to detect water vapor in remote parts of our own galaxy, found they could also use the radio telescope to measure the amount of water vapor in the earth's atmosphere. The method proved cheaper and more accurate than previous techniques, like...