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Convincing Nuances. Piccus called in his old friend Gordon, a language detective famous for his identification of an ancient Cretan script known as Linear A. Long a proponent of the theory that ancient civilizations of South America were somehow influenced by Middle Eastern culture, Gordon carefully compared the Paraíba inscription with the latest work on Phoenician writing. He found that it contained nuances and quirks of Phoenician style that could not have been known to a 19th century forger. "The alternatives are either that the inscription is genuine," said Gordon, "or that the guy was a great prophet...
...shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly in the frequent crowd scenes, when the groupings suggest at once the linear composition of classical art, and the luxury of a Cinemascope biblical epic. This is due in good part to Olga Liepmann's costumes, which make up in variety and color whatever they may lack in real period style. But in the intimate scenes, the static principle is a good deal less...
...crucial argument Mr. Imam makes for his scheme is that it would make study and learning "circular" rather than "linear." For many non-science courses (Fine Arts, Ec. 1, Soc. Sci. 2) learning ought to be linear. As for the rest, it is not clear that a switch in the sequence of lectures and reading solves the problem. Students now miss significant points of lectures or forget them by the time they get to the reading. Under the new system they would miss the importance of much of the reading (save for bits they scurried back to reread after...
...clear, for instance, that in the Humanities and Social Sciences absorbing snatches of information on a steadily growing number of topics can ultimately add up, as if arithmetically, to a meaningful synthesis. The process of linear learning--involving gradual increments in received knowledge over a period of time--works reasonably well in math and science courses but that is no guarantee that the study of human affairs ought to be conducted in the same...
...solar system, watching Earth. He has plainly become an integral part of the cosmos, perhaps as Life suggests, as a "star-child" or, as Penelope Gilliatt suggests, as the first of a species of mutant that will inhabit the Earth and begin to grow. What seemed a linear progression may ultimately be cyclical, in that the final effect of the monolith on man can be interpreted as a progress ending in the beginning of a new revolutionary cycle on a vastly higher plane. But the intrinsic suggestiveness of the final image is such that any consistent theory about the nature...