Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escape from black holes, making them invisible. Even more astounding, these bizarre non-objects are in effect celestial vacuum cleaners that voraciously devour everything they meet. They are bottomless pits into which atomic particles, dust and giant suns all disappear without a trace. They are rips in the very fabric of space and time, places where long-cherished laws of nature simply do not apply. So unbelievable and paradoxical are these notions that they have led to what Wheeler calls "the greatest crisis ever faced by physics." Says he: "Never before did we think that matter could be so ephemeral...
...increase in the birthrates of non-Russian ethnic groups in the Soviet Union may by the '80s rearrange the fabric of Soviet social institutions, such as industry and the military, Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of History, said yesterday in a lecture at the Science Center...
...whose linen suit looked as if it had escaped from a disaster movie, it was a sellout. Italy's Giorgio Armani is generally acknowledged to be the greatest evangelist of male unkempt. A disarming, blue-eyed Milanese, Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura toward an image of bohemian nonchalance. His bellows-pocketed, unlined suits are sellouts...
...sociologists focus on men's work or class or world-view; anthropologists on the nature of his ties to his family, community, religion, or nation. Levinson, however, is anxious to put his new discipline on a more secure, if ambitious, footing; he wants to study what he calls "the fabric of one's life," a man's complete "life structure" which embodies his occupation, relations to parents, friends, lovers, children, his varied social roles and self-definitions, and his basic choices, problems and paths in life. Through this over-arching concept...
...stays is your basic endurance of pettiness and ennui." Though Hannah readily exploits the southerner's license to orate, he is not especially interested in regional manners. His real concern is with the hollering, clawing passions that manners are supposed to civilize. Hannah likes to rend the social fabric and examine what's underneath. Two of his stories are apocalyptic, set during worldwide calamities that turn people savage. Three others take place amid the carnage fo the Civil War. One is set in Viet...