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...this approach," he writes, "lies in conceiving the whole space-time continuum of our human intuition as being immersed in a space of higher dimensions." The reality of a higher dimension than the three of space and one of time may seem somewhat elusive to ordinary human beings, but modern scientific minds can see it as mathematically just as sound...
...Buddhists believe that the cause not only of anxiety but of all other troubles is a deep-rooted illusion known as "self." For the belief in the existence of self makes the mind believe that it exists as an amorphous continuum, which appears to be the "I." Since the "I" exists in a continuum, it is an inescapable receiver of all pains and pleasures of the past, the present and the future. Hence we tend to think: " I" was happy a moment ago, now "I" am unhappy and what will "I" be next moment...
...Continuum of Mankind. If a dancer is good, she suggests purely and superbly the fundamental mechanics of ancestry and progeny-the continuum of mankind. But a great many of what Variety calls the "cooch terpers" are considerably less cosmic than that. Each dancer follows the ancient Oriental pattern-she glides sideways with shoulders motionless while her stomach migrates, and, through breathing and muscle control, she sends ripples across her body to the fingertips and away to the far end of the room. This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli (a musical term meaning...
Schmick Jr., who has served as executive vice president since 1953, has been chosen to succeed his father as president." So saying, the Sun dropped the subject, confident that Baltimoreans, accustomed to the unhurried. 123-year continuum of their favorite newspaper, would accept the change in command without losing any sleep. Baltimoreans...
Interesting though much of Packard's evidence may be, it never really proves his basic point that U.S. class lines are hardening. In fact it suggests just the opposite-a continually changing social scene. At one point Packard himself concedes that the "American populace [is] arranged along a continuum [with] a series of bulges and contractions." Much of what Packard describes as status seeking is indeed foolish, and some of it may be evil; but much of it is also the result of man's human status, and the product of a free and mobile society...