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...also a Keystone copout. Why do the vaudevillian police suddenly attack the other dancers? Why does the Spanish lady's flamenco collapse into a laugh-creating parody of itself? The answer, of course, is that those actions titillate theatrically-for an instant. Ballet, an art of linear grace and movement, is even less a medium of pure intellect than painting or opera. But it is not made relevant by playing games with half-digested references to yesterday's headlines...
...uneasy relationship between technology and "fine art" has become a crucial problem for artists over the past 20 years. It involves a chronic split between two modes of perception. On the one hand, the leisurely, selective, linear images on the museum wall; on the other, the shifting, promiscuous, more or less disposable flood of information and patterns that makes up most of our everyday visual experience. Much recent "novelty" art, as diverse as Pop and kinetics, is acutely conscious of that disjuncture. Indeed, the split itself has become a form of subject matter, and few men have made...
...While Herrnstein claims that equality of opportunity is ever increasing, in fact the counter is more accurate. Social mobility, as far as equality of opportunity is concerned, has shown no indications of a linear trend toward the society becoming more open," Useem added...
...While Herrnstein claims that equality of opportunity is ever increasing, in fact the counter is more accurate. Social mobility, as far as equality of opportunity is concerned, has shown no indications of a linear trend toward the society becoming more open," Useem added...
...could not be accelerated enough even to penetrate the skin.) In addition, scientists may some day create stable, superheavy elements by bombarding uranium with heavy ions. To bring this goal closer, Berkeley is now developing its one-two punch, connecting the Bevatron with another atom smasher, the Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator, 550 ft. away, to achieve even higher energy levels...