Word: cusps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST COMMONLY-USED model in applications is the "cusp," a three-dimensional structure dependent upon two variables or "control factors" with a third dimension, the "behavior axis," displaying the subject's reaction to these two factors...
...compromise position may be possible if the cusp model is replaced by a "butterfly" catastrophe allowing the input of two additional control factors. Woodcock and Davis suggest that the absorption of the Atomic Energy Commission by the Energy Research and Development Agency may permit both lobbying groups to reconcile their demands...
Frantz Fanon was born an outsider. He lived on the cusp of history, ground between implacable opposites. A black man from Martinique, Fanon grew up in the intensely French and white-oriented prewar culture of that island. Making it there, he went to France to train as a psychiatrist with whites as his patients. Then, in 1953, he moved to Algeria to direct a mental hospital crowded with North African Moslems...
City Lights was made during the turn into the 1930's, the cusp between the silents and sound films. Barely touching on the newer possibilities, it reaches into silent comedy's vaudevillian traditions for many effects and gags. Then after his chair has been moved, or accidentally substituting soap for his neighbor's cheese) is just one mark of his genius. We know that he'll flip his rescuer into the water as he struggles to get out, and we laugh uproariously anyway. Chaplin brings off new twists in a drunk scene and plays those familiar cliches with such finesse...
Keyes' dilemma should be familiar, even to those who consider themselves radicals. At a certain point we are all going to have to face a moment of cusp when we will finally have to decide which side we are on, and the decision is going to be irretrievable. Keyes says, "you can ignore the truth until something blows, but when it blows you have to face up to it. Or else walk away whistling." If we aren't going to walk away whistling, we have to stand up to the decision...