Word: intuitionism
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Bessie had a lot more than power, as Hammond soon realized. Subtlety, intuition, presence, drama, compassion-all those and more made her the greatest female blues singer who ever lived. Six years later, on Nov. 24, 1933, when Bessie's star -and fortune-had all but vanished, Hammond, who...
Unlike Picasso, Matisse left in his wake no memoirs by discarded mistresses, no picture books by importunate photographers. His paintings themselves are his only biography, but they tell all: an intimate diary as well as a public record of his subtle intuition, his patiently probing intellect, his will. Now Pierre...
Snyder also badly misjudged the end of Act III, by eradicating Antony's joy in his ironic recovery, which is really his moral devolution. The Antony of this production seemed incapable of lyric relaxation, of case, forgiveness, vision, and music. The Cleopatra is too often the shallow playacting little girl...
But while reading Dune, I realized that it was more than a brilliant revival of the Empire. Herbert had invented a complete universe, as mad and beautiful, inexplicable and frightening as this one. For a few magic moments there my own life seemed like a plausible fantasy, and Dune was...
Then how did the misconception arise? In part, says Holton, because of Einstein's own generous tributes to Michelson and Morley, whose work-in retrospect-provided the only experimental confirmation of relativity for many years. But most of the blame rests with the scientific community itself. By trying to...