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...tolerance for crazy hypotheses." Says Harvard's Owen Gingerich, who is an astronomer as well as a historian of science: "There might be noncausal things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash ion. It may be that aspects of mysticism totally outside science may come back and be incorporated within its framework." The eminent German physicist-philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker believes that such a unity already exists. At his in stitute outside Munich, he is attempting to show the essential...
...their book The Year 2000, which was written in 1967, there was not a thing about pollution, nothing about the Club of Rome. Already that book is ancient history. So in some sense it shows the kind of bankruptcy of that sort of imagination. It's so lineal...
...even they will find little nourishment in Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Technology is partly to blame. Once electric lights are substituted for candles, the ghosts no longer hold sway; a car is no proper substitute for the creaky carriage and pair. The plot, however, is a lineal descendant of the Bram Stoker original...
...artificiality of the entire venture. Only at the beginning of the second act does a quick sequence of vignettes suggest the texture of a complex, "historical" moment wherein a half-dozen events are existing almost simultaneously. The rest of the time we're all too aware of watching the lineal working out of a Plot...
Also Suedeheads. Their hair is shaved to within an eighth of an inch from the scalp, and they are dress in oversized workpants, thin red suspenders and hobnailed, steel-toed boots costing about$10 and known as "cherry reds." The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers-with an added touch of mindless savagery. When their hair grows a frifle longer, they refer to themselves as suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorizing such menacing types as hippies and homosexuals, Pakistani immigrants and little old ladies. "Hairies," those with long hair or hippie-style clothing, are their particular enemies...