Word: linearly
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...dissonant work has to do with the plea of the Roman general Lucullus, for admission to the Elysian fields before a jury of citizens. Although it had several appealing orchestral passages and at least one rousing chorus, the opera for the most part is in what Sessions calls his "linear and severe" mood, with many of the vocal parts written in droning monotone...
...tools of the high-energy physicists are enormous machines?cyclotrons, synchrotrons, linear accelerators?that smash atoms and subatomic particles to bits and expose them to study. Already, the physicists know of some 30 particles that form atoms or can be knocked out of them by high-energy collisions. The great challenge confronting the physicist is to formulate sets of laws describing the interaction of such particles and, at an even deeper level, to explain the reason for their existence. Therein lies the key to the understanding of the matter?and of all nature...
Most people know that college degrees include bachelor's, master's and doctor's, but they get lost in the abbreviations. No wonder, reported the U.S. Office of Education last week. In a 324-page book that must have required the toughest translating job since Linear B, the bureau reported that the nation's colleges and universities now issue more than' 1,600 degrees (v. about 60 in 1887), and the system is "chaotic...
...world's basic knowledge in the equivalent of a pocket-sized pamphlet-Feynman then and there impetuously offered two $1,000 prizes. One was to go to the first person to reduce the information on one page of a book to one twenty-five-thousandth of the linear scale of the original "in such manner that it can be read by an electron microscope"; the other would go to the inventor of an electrically powered rotating motor no bigger than a cube one sixty-fourth of an inch high...
More often, however, the academic system is the arena of conflict. One descriptive explanation divides the class into 'linear' and 'diffuse' students. Linears study everything on the reading list and attend all the lectures, or try to. The diffuse dabble, without much plan, through the course material, often achieving very little. As the Fall progresses, linears divide into a group which works ever more intensively and one which begins to learn the ropes and read selectively. The diffuse split into a segment which appears to be learning the ropes--actually begins to work fairly intensively along lines of personal interest...