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...Continuum Radiation. Type IV bursts consist of intense radiation that persists over a broad-band of frequencies for an hour or more. On the Harvard film records, a continuum burst looks like a white streak, perhaps an inch high, running horizontally across the film. This type of radiation accompanies the largest flares. It may be followed almost immediately by a burst of high-energy particles which travel toward the earth at almost the speed of light. These powerful particles can cause terrestrial radio blackouts. These days later a shower cloud of particles may reach the earth and cause geomagnetic storms...
...continuum bursts themselves are caused by a process known as synchrotron radiation: when electrons traveling at speeds near that of light are accelerated they emit a broad-band radiation. Any modern theory concerning solar flares must somehow explain where these high-speed electrons come from and how they are accelerated in order to explain Type IV radio emission...
...hold together from next to next by relations that are themselves part of experience. The directly apprehended universe needs, in short, no extraneous trans-empirical connective support, but possesses in its own right a concatenated or continuous structure." Presented most briefly, the doctrine asserts that reality is an "experience-continuum." Rigorous application of this notion impels James to such bizarre conclusions as a paradoxical denial that consciousness exists...
...notable examples are Poland and China, which define the limits of the continuum from excellence to garbage along which USSR shuttles from issue to issue. Each of the three periodicals has the problem of presenting propoganda to an essentially hostile audience without repelling its readers, and each has found a different solution. China, by far the least ingenious, tries to bury its bitter pills in a sugary mass of art reproductions, smiling faces, and photographs of tractors, hoping that the unwary victim will swallow the whole glop at once. But, alas, the medicine is not very well concealed...
...Brahms got the finest performance of the evening, and nearly deserved it. Though Doktor occasionally had problems with undesirable harmonics, in the lower register he coaxed forth the best rich tone of the viola. Under his consistently thoughtful phrasing, the music breathed; it ranged vigorously over a continuum of delicacy and strength. Beneath it all, the piano dully bungled along: too much pedal again, sloppy arpeggios, no subtlety in dynamics. But Brahms surmounted Miss Menuhin's limitations...