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STANFORD, Cal.--Stanford University has announced plans to build a $60 million underground addition to its linear accelerator to hold an energy beam of 100 billion electron volts--three times more powerful than any other in the world...
...current Stanford linear accelerator attracts physicists from all over the world. At any one time there are usually 350 physicists at the accelerator, a spokesman for the facility said...
...proceeds more as a spiral than a straight line...so experiences that appear to be circular and discouraging in the short run may turn out to be moving in a clear direction in the long run. Those of us who were taught the cheerful American notion that progress is linear and hierarchical, for instance, may have had to learn with pain in the '70s that no worthwhile battle can be fought and won only once...
...artists recoiled from impressionism, or were indifferent to it, instead of trying like Gauguin or Van Gogh to push beyond it. They are represented too, to the confusion of the term: if post-impressionism means not only Van Gogh's Arlesian canvases, in all their lambent color and twisting, linear energies, but also the eclectic products of a tonal impressionist like Jules Bastien-Lepage, with his soulful peasant girls in burlap, what can it mean? To what imaginable modernist context do the many style rétro canvases in this show belong?Giovanni Boldini's portrait of Mme. Max, for instance...
...addition to Alvarez, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, a physicist at the Standford Linear Accelerator Center in California, and two other scientists are on the committee...