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...labyrinth was the main feature of what was billed as the First International Tactile Sculpture Symposium, which drew 15 artists, psychologists and teachers to discuss such things as the importance of touch to emotion and art. The exhibits were public. Reaction, as registered on questionnaires distributed at the entrance, may or may not have affirmed the symposium's point. "Fearful," read one response, "Sexy," read another One young woman resurfaced from the darkness in the buff, clutching her garments. "It's too much of an experience in there," she said matter-of-factly. "I didn't understand...
...food (satisfactory to barely palatable), the service ("You're late, sweetheart," said a waiter to a lady sitting down to lunch, "so now you're gonna have to wait"), and the difficulty of finding one's way about the ship ("I feel like Ariadne in the labyrinth" said a London matron). Though food and service may improve as the crew settles into routine, the ship's eventual profitability remains a large question mark. "The trouble," said a steward, "is that Cunard hasn't made up their minds whether they want a ship or a bloody...
Byzantine Labyrinth. In The Valley of Bones (the seventh novel), Nick Jenkins was an officer in a Welsh regiment training for the invasion. Now he has been transferred to the offices of the British general staff in Whitehall. In that bureaucratic maze, Powell's khaki characters may seem less military than dilatory. But anyone who has inhabited the Byzantine labyrinths of noncombat wartime staff headquarters will recognize the wry truth of Powell's picture of intrigue, futility and boredom...
...cardiology. For surgery on such a baby's heart, U.S. surgeons are preeminent. So are the surgeons who operate on older patients' arteries. For trouble in the brain's arteries, researchers at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have helped to develop a magnetic probe that will swim through the arterial labyrinth and tell the neurologist what he needs to know. At Harvard, surgeons practice knifeless surgery with a proton gun that destroys overactive tissue deep inside the skull. At Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, ophthalmic surgeons turn patients upside down to let gravity help them in repositioning a detached retina...
...journal tries to represent as many disciplines as possible, providing, one of the founders wrote, "a medium through which leading scholars can address each other." The title itself refers to Daedalus, the Greek scientist who escaped from the labyrinth. The scholar, according to the comparison, has his own labyrinth to escape from. Daedalus gathers view-points from various faculties on questions that have long called for the collaboration of the whole academic community. Few professors turn down a chance to participate in the Daedalus "conference," which precedes the publication of every issue...