Word: dimensionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teachers involved in the program, which aims ultimately to reach half a million students, spend about a month at the astrophysics center learning the fundamentals of the STAR approach. They are taught that the road to enlightenment lies in the third dimension. "To convert from three dimensions to two and...
And Bourbeau and MacDonald? "They give us a dimension any team in the country would like," Cleary said.
Jameson Marvin emphasizes that math and music share an underlying sense of order. "In music, there's a dimension of time and ordering time," he says. "Like math, music is ultimately a sense of trying to order. Therefore mathemeticians--just the way their minds work--often have an affinity for...
TV, by comparison, plays cunning tricks with dimension, makes the teddy- bear-size female gymnasts seem larger than they are, the redwood basketball players smaller. And TV distances as it disinfects, replacing an event with a picture of an event, the unimaginable with an image. Most of all, TV, by...
With George Bush and Michael Dukakis each trying to establish his toughness, the question of how to cope with the other superpower has too often been reduced to its military dimension. Last week they were back at it, carping over the relative merits of the Stealth bomber and the MX...