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In a recent survey, less than one-third admitted to being "very happy," while only 31% of West Germans and a mere 9% in the East could agree with the statement "We live in a happy age." Moreover, surprisingly quirky definitions were offered when the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked...
The German pavilion contains a single installation by the political- conceptua l artist Hans Haacke. In the past Haacke has done many a verbose indictment of capitalist culture, but this time he seems to have got his epigram down. The first thing you see is a wall with a blown...
But perhaps the most important reason for Korngold's loss of nerve may be this: despite some sumptuous melodies and opulent orchestration, Heliane is simply not very good. It suffers from an incomprehensible libretto, based on a murky "miracle play" by a minor Expressionist poet, Hans Kaltneker. Korngold's literary...
The reason, he and many colleagues believe, may have been a mass extinction of many of the planet's species late in the Triassic period. It could have been caused by the impact of a massive asteroid or comet, perhaps, or by dramatic climate changes triggered as Pangaea separated to...
Not surprisingly, then, accounts of the first language experiments with apes in the 1970s produced one of the most fractious debates in the history of the behavioral sciences. Washoe the chimp and Koko the gorilla became famous for their linguistic feats using sign language, but scientists argued bitterly over the...