Word: euclideanism
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...cellophane spaces crackling with emptiness, its border indistinct. Mountains of some synthetic material rim the flatness of every available inch of the hall's acres of aisle and plank; throughout the production, unexpected portions of this flatness rise and fall, thrusting the landscape of events into strange non-Euclidean configurations. A friend of the production has advanced the hypothesis that Lachow conceived the whole thing as an experiment in topology. It's possible. Ruling out any element of interpretation of Woyzeck would likely prove limiting...
...past 50 years. But the suggestive mood pervades all his work except the landscapes. To encounter it in the mellowed and reduced form of Katia Reading, 1970-76, is still faintly disturbing-as if one of the figures in Seurat's Grande Jatte had turned from its Euclidean stillness and made a gesture of invitation. In terms of formal arrangement, it would be hard to imagine a more organized image than this: the chair could not be shifted an inch, or the angle of the girl's legs a degree, without some loss. But it is also...
...figures in assessing world oil potential: proven reserves and possible, or probable, reserves. Proven reserves are figured by many oil geologists at 640 billion bbl., almost a 30-year supply at current consumption rates-but despite the name they are scarcely "proven" in the sense that a proposition in Euclidean geometry is; they are really only estimates based on the best available evidence. To determine proven reserves, geologists study earth strata by drilling for rock and fluid samplings. Often calculations predict probable output by comparing it with production from similar fields already in operation. Trouble is, real output seldom matches...
...directors. Kubrick picked perhaps the only subject which could sustain such extended self-conscious artistry; for once the medium was the message, and by following the shifts of shapes and the repetition of frames and camera movements, you experienced the space flight growth of non-Newtonian physics and non-Euclidean geometry. Despite Kubrick's avowed Platonism, his contention that man is moving away from a biological condition, the guts of the film remained subversively satiric. These astronauts weren't heroes, but celestial teamsters...
...teaching. Now used in many schools across the U.S. and in Great Britain, the method draws also on the ideas of John Dewey, Italian Educator Maria Montessori and Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner. Discovery classrooms, in essence, are informal laboratories where children gain an early familiarity with the principles of Euclidean geometry by manipulating variously shaped objects, and learn fundamentals of counting and reproduction by charting the egg production of classroom hens. As Piaget said recently, "a ready-made truth is only half a truth. The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create possibilities...