Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere beyond the reach of the intellect." In Swann's Way, it was a tea-soaked petite madeleine that touched off the hero's long-forgotten childhood memories. In the scientific world, the stimulus is sometimes a surgeon's probe. Montreal Surgeon Wilder Penfield, for example, while performing operations under local anesthesia, by chance found brain sites that when stimulated electrically led one patient to hear an old tune, another to recall an exciting childhood experience in vivid detail, and still another to relive the experience of bearing her baby. Penfield...
...Bucky's Bubble in Montreal and scores of other geodesic domes stand as monuments to Mr. Fuller's well-rounded genius [March 1]. However, I cannot accept the proposal that "dome-iciles" are the answer to the global need for low-cost housing. When a designer cannot economically achieve warmth, friendliness and informality with square walls, I hardly think it appropriate to blame the walls. Your photographs illustrate how cold and uninviting a dome can be on the interior and how the exterior can be made to resemble a piece of discarded orange peel...
...obvious example, he cited Ken Dryden, who he thinks will be go-attending for Montreal in the next year or two. Dan Lodboa, a defenseman who graduated last year, is leading the Central Hockey League in goals scored...
...draft. A committed member of the counterculture, Simon has already earned the clan's enmity by sending a condolence letter to Ho Chi Minh at about the same time that Anna's boy was killed in Viet Nam. As retribution, Arthur is told to fly to Montreal and shoot his son. He has no intention of doing so, but out of cowardice makes the trip. On his return he is astonished to learn that Anna has been blown up by a bomb...
Tankersley dynamited the 60-ft. tower, then abandoned a cache of explosives just ahead of the police and made his way to Montreal. There, as a fugitive, he began to rethink his political role: "I was far enough away from the movement to reflect on my own actions without interruption. Nobody was there to remind me whom I could talk to and whom I couldn't. I drew on liberal ideas and conservative ideas and found that I didn't know everything. I had been wasting all of my energy figuring out how to destroy, when I could...