Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's surprises were only the beginning. NASA scientists expect their lode of data to yield discoveries for months to come. The advanced computer-enhancement techniques developed at J.P.L. for processing color photographs permit researchers to mute or intensify colors to help bring out the faintest details. It was during a photographic fine-tuning session, while he was rerunning fairly distant views of Saturn on the TV screen, that J.P.L. Scientist Stewart Collins, working with David Carlson, a visiting student from Drexel University, discovered the planet's 13th and 14th moons...
...society will do us in. Like lemmings heading for the sea, we march in mute senselessness toward a future bleaker than the present or past. John Hejduk '53 thinks that artists must help us to break loose from the shackles of an antiquated social/political system. He demands that his fellow architects awaken to the needs of mankind. Architects must create new programs, reshaping the environment to ensure the continuation of humanity...
...could take a month or more for the old shows to return with new episodes. In the interim, viewers can choose among "specials" and series from the commercial networks and PBS that will instruct, provoke and entertain in intelligent new ways. For the next few weeks, TV will mute its role as electronic babysitter and engage the viewer in adult conversation. En garde, sitcommers and real people! The spirit could be catching...
Very few argue Cambridge shouldn't or can't encourage industrial development in the city. The form of those incentives and their effects may spark debate, but the need for new income and jobs will mute that controversy. "Idealistically, in ten to 15 years, what we will see is a very strong tax base with the neighborhoods intact," Vickery says...
These exemplars have not caused the author to mute his own polemic. He was, after all, a student and friend of Philosopher John Dewey, and the disciple adheres to the master's dictum: human freedoms can be extended only by the arts of intelligence. In Philosophy and Public Policy, that intelligence oscillates between civility and perversity. "The Hero in History" summarizes his brilliant division of the "event-making" men who redirect history (Lenin, Peter the Great) and "eventful" men (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) who are overtaken by circumstance. Yet his call for a corrective to the country...