Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much concerned with these matters of duty. The obligation is a burden, but the brother takes a grave pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly along...
...philosophically unsatisfactory. "Closed universe" scientists have long contended that if there was enough matter in or between the galaxies, there would be enough mutual gravitational attraction to gradually slow their outward flight. The expansion would halt, and all the parts of the universe would begin to fall inward, eventually crushing together again in a final cataclysm. Some closed universe theorists hold out the possibility that matter would in effect rebound from the crunch in another big bang and that the universe would continue to oscillate, expanding and contracting forever. Now both theories seem to be seriously undermined...
...Recent times have seen a reversal of this, and few people, including the councilors involved, can really explain why. Possibly, the activist, concerned and frequently liberal citizen has lost faith in his ability to deal with the larger issues of poverty, the War and inflation and is increasingly turned inward, to a scale that he can have some impact on, and that has some meaning to him. Increasingly, also, the great liberal institutions have fallen short for those who asked much (perhaps too much) of them. And they have particularly fallen short in the close view of neighborhood concerns...
...Boston Visual Artists Union gallery: "Affinities." The Real Paper describes it as having a "quiet, reflective, inward-looking tone." The poster doesn't do much more than list the five artists who are taking part. Watch this space for further details...
...Space, in fact, seems to be full of neutron stars. Since Hewish and his assistant, Jocelyn Bell, found the first one, about 100 more have been identified by astronomers. A neutron star is a bizarre object. It is formed when a giant star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses inward on itself, crushing much of its matter into a ball of neutrons some ten miles in diameter-but so dense that a thimbleful of it would weigh millions of tons on earth. Scientists theorize that the neutron star spins rapidly, causing its intense magnetic field to interact with ionized gases...