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Buckminster Fuller, internationally renowned architect, inventor of the Dymaxion house, the geodesic dome, and the Dymaxion World Map, is living at Quincy House during his term as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Although Lewis will publish his analysis of the material in the near future one does feel that his introduction could have been fuller. What stood out in all of the lives was an incapacity to love, to trust, and there are abundant indications that at the bottom of this fact lies a sense of maternal deprivation. How much of this feeling resulted from the children's early loss of their mother is hard to say, for a good deal of Mexican culture in general seems to reflect, on the one hand, an extreme form of the cult of the Virgin...
...tetrahedron frequently appears in nature: the spatial orientation of a carbon atom's valence electrons, for example, is tetrahedral. Fuller also noted that all three-dimensional geometric figures reduce to combinations of tetrahedra. The tetrahedron, in fact, "is the minimum system for subdividing the universe...
...Fuller spoke for two and a half hours without script or notes. "Thinking out loud," he began slowly, but later spewed forth his thoughts at breakneck pace...
...VENEZUELA, Jesuits called Billy "an ignorant farm boy unworthy of being given a hearing." an "ex-door-to-door salesman" (which he was, for Fuller brushes). But Venezuela is less devoutly Catholic than its neighbors. In Caracas and Maracaibo, Billy drew the largest crowds of his trip; his final sermon was broadcast by eleven radio stations...