Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Player's sixth sense has been invaluable for a golfer who regularly plays in championships on every continent. This year he won his tenth South African Open. On Sunday he displayed all of his dexterity in gauging the manifold contours of Augusta's greens, which hold approach shots much better than the hard greens of South African courses...
...last decade of his life, Paul Cézanne experienced, perhaps more fully than any great artist since Michelangelo, the anxiety of Tantalus. The more he painted, the more he saw. The more he saw, the more manifold and unattainable truth became. "I must tell you," Cézanne wrote to his son six weeks before his death in the fall of 1906, "that as a painter I am becoming more clear-sighted before nature, but with me the realization of my sensations is always painful. I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses...
...problems--time, energy, the demands of technical competence, and above all, money--are manifold and obvious. Despite the enthusiasm of its members, the future of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company remains precarious. But that does not mean that the present experience is wasted. As Fine put it, "The Company could easily fold, but that would be okay, because dance is ephemeral--it blossoms, and then it's gone...
...implications of the Hartman case--and the aftershocks which the case continues to produce in the GSD--are manifold...
...control in its "dual displacement engine" (DDE). A small (6 in. by 6 in. by 1? in.) black box mounted on the fire wall is fed information from five strategically placed sensors. These devices monitor the temperature of the engine coolant, the engine speed, the transmission setting, the engine manifold vacuum pressure and the throttle angle...