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Where will it all end? Fusion fever continued to rage throughout the scientific world last week, causing many ordinarily cautious scientists to jabber as though the revolution they hope for had already occurred. Cold fusion, the controversial "discovery" announced last month at the University of Utah, was proclaimed by one researcher to be "perhaps as significant as the invention of the wheel." Another said it "may be the most important discovery since fire." Most scientists are still dubious, especially about claims that the experiment produced four times the energy it consumed, but the prospect of virtually limitless energy has generated...
...categories, his unconventional cropping, his "coldness." The long continuities of his work have not always been obvious. Degas was the most modern of artists, but his kind of modernity, entailing a passionate working relationship with the past, hardly exists today. How we would have bored him, with our feeble jabber of postmodernist "appropriation...
...vague sort of visual fluoride. Its role has also withered as social compacts about the use of public space have been trashed. The aerosol valve has done for eyes in American cities what the suitcase radio has done for ears: civility dies before the corrosive jibber-jabber and the intrusive spray can. Graffiti are the strangling weeds on the ruins of the idea of public art. No wonder most city dwellers today think of public sculpture as just one more semivisible addition to an already cluttered environment, and would rather have a nice tub of petunias...
...World War I suspended the blithe jabber. Ervin was wounded twice during his 18 months in France, then earned a postwar degree from Harvard Law School, forever beggaring his self-description as "just a country lawyer." But he did move straight back home to marry his childhood sweetheart and, as a state legislator, helped defeat a proposed ban on the teaching of evolution. Said Ervin at the time: "The monkeys in the jungle will be pleased to know that the North Carolina legislature has absolved them from any responsibility for humanity." Despite his own robust Presbyterianism, he was an absolute...
...everybody likes the monkey house. The chimps clutch the bars and make faces; the orangutans lounge obscenely and scratch their hairy orange arms. With ape-like gestures, the cast members of the Mainstage production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade shriek, jabber and carry on. As the inmates of the asylum of Charenton, they perform a play within a play. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat, written by one of their own number, the Marquis de Sade...