Word: linearity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably not even Deighton, can follow a Deighton plot. Like its forerunners, The Ipcress File and the bestselling Funeral in Berlin, this one winds along a serpentine of intrigue that defies both credibility and comprehension. It involves an anonymous secret agent, a fetching and murderous Finnish girl, a linear computer that can call people on the telephone, and a clutch of hen's eggs inoculated with a deadly virus...
Rhythmically Davidson tries to take his music beyond the urgency of time, by refusing to impose a metrical structure. The lack of any kind of beat, the sliding-along impression of some of the music, does emphasize the linear continuum (not-spatially-divided) idea of time. But rhythms are often used as a basis for improvisation. Sometimes it is merely the rhythmical imitation of the opening statement that connects the otherwise contrasting chorus to the rest of the piece. And sometimes interesting rhythms serve as counter-subjects in their own right...
When the bubble chamber is reassembled, it may be offered to either Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, Long Island, the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago or the Stanford Linear Accelerator, all of which could house it safely, Livingstone said...
...each board, replacements are mostly elected by the members themselves, but some positions are filled by alumni ballot. Cornell's 49 trustees also include one picked by the New York State Grange and the eldest linear male descendant of Ezra Cornell...
...Navy officer in World War II, and has gained an international reputation for his vividly imaginative drawings. He is best known, perhaps, for his regular contributions to The New Yorker, has also been published in LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Harper's Bazaar. In his deceptively simple linear technique, he gives life to Paul Klee's definition of drawing as the art of taking a line for a walk...