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...form of address, the feminists have decided to be called Ms. (pronounced miz). In spite of all the jokes about Ms. standing for manuscript and mail steamer and master sergeant, it is fast becoming both a symbol and a fad. Ordinarily nonpolitical and conservative businesses, publications and organizations that correspond with women are having to make the big decision about whether to switch to Ms. Women's Wear Daily has, Vogue has not; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has, the White House...
Died. Michael Rabin, 35, virtuoso violinist who dazzled millions of concertgoers on six continents; of a skull fracture from a fall in his Manhattan apartment. At the age of three, Rabin demonstrated that he had perfect pitch by plinking notes on the piano to correspond to any sound he heard. At 14, he made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall, launching his professional career with a flawless rendition of Wieniawski's Concerto No. 1. The next year came the first of his 84 appearances with the New York Philharmonic. The pressures of being a prodigy took their toll...
...opponents of capital punishment are willing to concede the full weight of the emotion of vengeance. Before reaching the high court, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: "The first requirement of a sound body of law is that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong. If people would [go so far as to] gratify the passion of revenge outside the law, the law has no choice but to satisfy the craving itself, and thus avoid the greater evil of private retribution." Capital punishment is still very much based on that need for retribution...
Additional evidence came from a study of magnetic-field readings in the Albuquerque area: the variations in magnetic-field strength seeming to correspond closely to increases and declines in the accident rate. The investigation also included an analysis of barometric pressure, which other scientists have found to influence human behavior. The Sandia team discovered that most accidents seemed to occur when the barometer was either rising or falling sharply...
...first artists to use a Kodak systematically. It was his habit to set up his camera and focus it while talking to friends, and startle them with a cry of "One moment, please!" and a click. Much of the angling and perspective in Vuillard's rooms seems to correspond to the distortions of an old-fashioned lens. His pictures are full of forms, gestures and profiles that get trimmed by the frame, as a photo is trimmed by its rectangular format-life scanned and sliced. In this, as in his sense of the theatrics of the commonplace, Vuillard...