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...billions of years ago in a so-called "Big Bang"-a violent explosion of a primordial clump of matter. Ever since, fragments of that clump -consisting largely of the islands of stars called galaxies-have been flying apart. But the universe is expanding at a steadily decreasing speed; the outward flight of each galaxy is being slowed by the pull of gravity from the others. If that pull is strong enough, the galaxies will eventually be braked to a halt. Then they will begin falling back to crush together in a final cataclysm. If the tug of gravity...
...infinitely expanding universe is a concept that does not sit well with many scientists, but in their search of the heavens, astronomers have so far found only a fraction of the mass needed to produce enough gravitational force to halt and reverse the outward flight. Now, Astrophysicist Jeremiah P. Ostriker of Princeton University thinks that he may have found what his colleagues have been looking for. At a recent meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago, he suggested that enough mass to "close" the universe may be hidden in great halos of matter around the galaxies. His evidence comes...
...Kissinger can never change. There are men and women here, I realize, who live an alternate view of the purpose of a university. These people study American foreign policy or Vietnamese culture not because they wish to plan aggressive war or destroy Vietnam, but because they seek to push outward the frontiers of knowledge and enable people everywhere to grapple a bit better with the problems which confound...
...FIRST came upon a style similar to Orr's while sitting in the waiting-room of a doctor's office. Appearing in the New Yorker was a single poem by Mark Strand called "The Room." It describes a place much like that waiting-room: antiseptic, empty, bereft of any outward emotion, full of silent anticipation. A sense of detachment in the short, simple lines emphasizes an underlying presence of death and sorrow. And Strand's dreamlike collection of everyday objects paradoxically works to produce a coherent poem. Orr's poetry used the same simplicity, the same etherial contrast of commonplace...
Stott does an equally impressive job pursuing the "documentary motive" as it moved outward from film and journalism to be felt and expressed in remarkably diverse areas of thirties life. He turns to the universities to discover large numbers of social scientists agreeing with the journalists of the period who questioned "the dubious authority of statistics and concluding generalizations." Confronted with the overwhelming proportions of the Depression, they rejected theoretical approaches wholesale and set out after the flesh and blood experience of "real people," the "human meaning" that would somehow make the thirties comprehensible...