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...mathematical molecules began to interact, the computer sketched them in bright, sharp lines on a television screen. For the first time, scientists were able to examine a cross-section view of the orbits of electrons during a chemical reaction. By ordering the computer to slice through the ammonium chloride molecule at different angles, Clementi developed other cross sections; he was also able to determine exactly how the atoms in the molecule were joined...
...constrained by the intellectualization of Professor Heimert. On the one hand, he learned at Berkeley that "a great big, impersonal university just doesn't make it;" on the other hand, people just can't be thrown together in the Houses, placed under the charge of administrators, and told to interact--that would be "cheap social engineering." The solution is to recruit Masters who are committed to the intellectual goals of the university and to the social goals of the Houses. Heimert no doubt sees himself as this kind of compound figure. But his whole disposition makes him skittish about organizing...
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Barth. When read straight through, these 14 experimental pieces of fiction by the author of Giles Goat-Boy interact to produce a series of enticing illusions...
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Earth. When read straight through, these 14 experimental pieces of fiction by the author of Giles Goat-Boy interact to produce a series of enticing illusions...
...average American church service is almost as rare as it is in a movie audience. Parishioners begin to nod drowsily as the minister begins the sermon; collective prayer and singing masks the reality that most worshipers are atomistically locked in their own private thoughts. Worried about this failure to interact, a few avant-garde theologians are experimenting with new, nonverbal techniques as potential ways of restoring some sense of community in worship. A striking example of this trend took place at the recent assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden, where Wilbert H. McGaw Jr. presided over...