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...more interested in ideas and creativity than administrative duties,” David Mac Lane said. “Mathematics was the major function of his life....He loved to teach and do research and he enjoyed his work at Harvard very much...
...want information on how to avoid the disease and for those who have trouble dealing with their fear, or "AIDS anxiety," as it is now called. Washington's AIDS Education Fund, for instance, offers seminars for the "worried well," who are sometimes so terrified that they can no longer function normally in everyday life. The worry has even led some gays to change their appearance. Because rapid weight loss is one of the symptoms of AIDS, some homosexuals think it is not fashionable any more to be thin. "In Los Angeles it is almost a sign of health among gays...
...color, brilliant and various, has been almost obligatory in all things, from clothing to kitchen appliances to automobiles to furniture. What was not cotton-candy pink was smile-button yellow; if not sunset orange, then avocado green. Black, however, remained stricken from the palette, used only when demanded by function or material (tires, outdoor grills, cast-iron skillets) and in a few ritual contexts (limousines and hearses, tuxedoes, evening gowns and the costumes of mourners and clerics). When people had a choice of colors, they did not choose black...
...first seem eccentric. Further, his method of microtonal tuning, which he has long advocated, requires singers and instrumentalists to produce quarter-tone intervals, so that an octave is divided into 24 pitches instead of the conventional twelve. Yet each of the disparate elements in the opera has a dramatic function, giving characters or groups of characters distinct musical personalities...
...disruption was intended to be a demonstration of the fact that the tiny country (pop. 240,000) could not function without its women. Why make that rather obvious point? Because working women in Iceland earn 40% less than men on average, though 80% of working-age women hold jobs. Journalists seeking more data on that shocking wage disparity ran into trouble. "I'm sorry," said a female employee at the Iceland Information Office. "I can't speak to you. I'm on strike...