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...mysterious contrast between the cool interior and the hot partial view through the open window. But it was the human form that held for him the ultimate sensuous appeal. It was the engine of his creative exploration, the subject he held fast in order, paradoxically, to range farthest...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to ameeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point- the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach- and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...Discussion and especially divided discussion is the farthest thing from decision making. Why doesn't the faculty meeting split up in six little groups and make decisions about everything?" he said...
Slichter also sets a record for farthest-west Fellow. Until Ohioan Calkins was chosen in 1968, all Corporation members had been from the Eastern seaboard...
Garth, the son of a World War I pilot turned agricultural inspector, went farthest in formal study, getting through his first year in music at the University of Western Ontario before taking to the road. Before that he had helped his father rebuild two pump organs and worked through much of Bach's keyboard music (The Well-Tempered Clavier, some 300 chorales). He also briefly played sepulchral organ in his uncle's funeral parlor. "It was terrible," he recalls. "A terrible business...