Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exodus could do more harm than good for nonwhites. American-owned businesses might be taken over by other multinationals, notably the Japanese, that are far less responsive to the blacks. Possibly the South African government would seize control of some companies and make the American owners deposit the proceeds of their forced sales in government securities...
...sunlight, as has been noted after major volcanic eruptions like that of Krakatoa in 1883, yet also act as an atmospheric cap keeping in heat. Says Scripps' Charles Keeling: "Dust impedes radiation in both directions. We do not know if the net effect is heating or cooling." No less puzzling is the possible effect on world temperature of changes in the atmosphere's ozone layer...
...drawing what he could not build. Piranesi was perhaps subconsciously ex pressing a spirit caged by infinite space. In an age when reason and the romance of individual freedom were replacing old certitudes, Piranesi's labyrinthine galleries, infinitely receding arches and end less stairs must have been as profoundly unsettling to his contemporaries as the edge of a flat earth was to the ancients or black holes in space are to modern man. -A.T. Baker
WHAT REALLY SAVES this evening of Mamet--arguably America's hottest playwright--is the other, simpler, less garrulous drama--The Duck Variations. Not only is it funnier, more interesting, and better acted, it is deep and relevent and genuinely responsive--without being bombastic or tiring...
...class of Nieman Fellows also includes two "visiting Niemans" who will spend less than the standard nine-month duration involved in the Nieman curriculum...