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...means be read, if for no other reason than to form some impression of the quicksilver state of physics with regard to these concepts. Wave-particle duality and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle are still hard to get used to, but there has for several decades already been a flux of speculation about their meaning. Ernest Cassirer, David Bohm, and Erwin Schrodinger are writing in a realm where...
...advertising as the strongest force in moving goods is a uniquely American contribution to economic life-and like most things American, constantly in flux. Born as a big business with the rise of national magazines around the turn of the century, advertising has changed bewilderingly since then, and today is changing faster than ever, with far-reaching implications for all of U.S. society. It is destined to become even more omnipresent: in dollar volume, advertising in the U.S. has doubled since 1950, is expected to double again in the decade to come. And as it grows bigger and more complicated...
Avalanches of Change. And so it is. In the flux of history, the most earnest pronouncements of statesmen tend to be ephemeral. The archives of nations are stuffed with decrees, declarations, edicts, enunciations, protocols and pronounce ments that were meant to resound for decades but lasted only for weeks or months. Yet the Monroe Doctrine lives on in the hearts and minds of Americans-even though most of them have only the foggiest notion of what it says and means...
After Batala's first "death" his employees form a cooperative to run the press and publish Lange's magnum opus, Arizona Jim. The faubourg rejoices. Renoir illustrates the new freedom by continuing the visual symbolism of the street-building flux. Lange's invalid brother is living in a room whose windows are blocked by one of Batala's billboards. The new regime tears down the poster and Lange's brother looks out onto the street for the first time...
Novelist Grau is deliberately vague about the outcome. What concerns her here, as in her earlier books (The Hard Blue Sky and The Black Prince and Other Stories), is not plot but the endless flux of feeling. Writers of encyclopaedic novels would do well to read her-and learn how to catch the shape of a lifetime in the merest shadow of an event...