Word: linearities
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...announced last week by a Berkeley team led by Physicist Albert Ghiorso and Chemist Glenn Seaborg, the former Atomic Energy Commission chairman who won a Nobel Prize for synthesizing element No. 94 (plutonium). The Berkeley scientists used a newly beefed-up particle accelerator called Super-HILAC (for heavy ion linear accelerator) to send nuclei of oxygen atoms barreling into another artificial element, californium. As occasional collisions occurred between the oxygen and californium nuclei, they fused and formed the heavier nucleus of element 106-but not for long. Like most artificial elements, No. 106 is extremely unstable. It has a half...
...liturgical stateliness of form, the encyclopedic richness of ornament and material (gold, silver, precious stones, enamel), the sublime monotony of pose and gesture by which the human figure was depicted only as the dwelling place of a thought or a doctrine, the flat mantle of peacock colors, the linear arabesques. An ivory carving like the 10th century Apostles John and Paul-their long-toed feet, under the prismatic ripple of drapery, as articulate as hands-shows the almost neurotic tenderness that the Byzantine style could muster. But the more usual tone of high Byzantine art was an aloof abstraction...
Western man's step-by-step, linear, analytic mode of knowledge has enriched him, Ornstein believes, but has also impoverished him by draining out, or underground, his intuition and more holistic ways of perceiving. What Ornstein is after is "a confluence" of the two streams of knowledge-the techniques of the lab joined to the equally valid but vastly different concerns of mystics like the Sufis, with whose tales he regales his audiences...
...time out for meditation. "I'm not convinced it's good for you, or more personally, that it's good for me," he says. He is far more interested in pursuing his electronic studies of brain activity, the kind of work well suited to the "very linear, left-hemisphere person" he believes himself...
Once he had developed this structure, Pope went on to explain how an artist, by manipulating one of these three elements, could create the illusion of space or light, could create a mode in his work that is linear, sculptural, pictorial or visual. The exhibit uses familiar works from the Fogg's collection-works by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Copley and Tiepolo-as examples of these modes. The idea is grand, but a grand result never materializes. The exhibit is not organized with the idea that someone who knows nothing about color might want to explore it. That jargon is obscure...