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...Been the only Republican sponsor of the Conference on Reevaluation of National Priorities (the anti-MIC conference...
Some time in March, in a chamber 400 feet below the tip of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Egyptian and American scientists will set up a spark chamber to detect a component of cos mic rays called muons. Actually sub atomic particles traveling close to the speed of light, some of the muons will be energetic enough to penetrate the dense structure of the pyramid and pass through the spark chamber, a device consisting of two horizontal pairs of oppositely charged metal plates. Be cause the muon leaves a wake of ionized gas, which conducts electricity, a spark will jump...
...suggests the intrigue that occurs in the demimonde of belles-lettres over the some 1,850 French literary prizes that are awarded each year. Nourissier, himself a former Vogue editor who resigned because Mile. "Charles-Roux was fired, captured this year's less lucrative but prestigious Académic Franchise prize for his Line Histoire Française a nostalgic reverie in which a man adjusts his boyhood dreams to the new conditions of France. Known as "The Immortals," the academy's haughty members are not too proud for infighting either, gained a publicity jump on the Goncourt...
Stubborn Gentility. At the Académic Julian, with its ateliers crowded by easels and nudes, the young Yankee drank in the French artists' sense of professionalism. He also suffered from a nonacademic thirst for painting nature directly, out of doors. Soon he was outside, capturing with rapid brush strokes the luminous sparkle of Paris streets after quick cloudbursts. Detail dropped out. Against an overcast, his clusters of black umbrellas suggested swollen, devilish halos. Unlike Sargent, Whistler or Mary Cassatt before him, Hassam returned to the U.S. after three years in France. He settled in New York, rendering...
...Bourbons, he ruled from 1610 to 1643 (a reign that roughly parallels England's Early Jacobean period), generated the power that elevated France into the splendor of the baroque. It was a period that saw both the dissolving of the parlements and the founding of the Académic Française...