Word: linearity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Puzzling Erosion. In all, Manner 7 radioed back 126 pictures, compared with 74 by Mariner 6, before speeding behind Mars en route to an orbit around the sun. The pictures have all but ended the old controversy about the so-called Martian canals. The "canals" are not distinct linear features laid out by intelligent beings, as some scientists once believed, but apparently rough, uneven splotches that lose their geometric-looking form on closer examination. Far from being the outpost of an advanced civilization, Mars more and more seems to be something of a primordial version of the earth...
...facing the distressing fiscal facts contained therein, I rushed forth and bought a color television set of heroic dimensions, broke off all diplomatic relations with my book clubs, and now, with shriveled soul and bated breath, I wait for the dawn of McLuhan's Millennium of Non-Linear Information...
...Hittite royal archives, consisting of thousands of clay tablets discovered in central Turkey in 1907, make no mention of a major campaign against the city. More damning perhaps is the absence of any reference to the war in ancient tablets found within Greece and written in the recently deciphered Linear B script. Berve points out, moreover, that only a few hundred years after Homer, the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides were already Questioning his accuracy: their writings about Troy are studded with phrases like "as far as poets can be believed" and "there have been some exaggerations...
...this seems peculiar at a time when the U.S. teems with putative intellectuals-in hospitals, foundations, think tanks, the government, "knowledge industry" corporations. A company of RCA's scope is now involved not only in manufacturing but also in producing novels and doing research in linear algebra. The Pentagon's interests range from high-energy physics to tutoring for school dropouts. The U.S. needs intellectuals for defense, city planning, space exploration, for running computers and training more intellectuals. The intellectual's horizons are almost unlimited. Then why is he so unhappy...
...What Britain's Royal Ballet offers above all else is the English style. Style it indubitably is: the Royal's approach to dance is essentially lyrical rather than dramatic, narrative instead of abstract. It offers an almost invisible way of dancing that emphasizes detail-perfect simplicity and linear beauty rather than energy and showmanship. The Royal can often be cold, bloodless and impersonal, but at its best, it presents ballet that is marked by finish, accuracy and singing grace...