Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inquiry listing a string of actions by the History faculty, that ranged from declining to waive department requirements to acting rude to him in elevators. "None of this was in my self-interest," he wrote, in a classic expression of Harvard paranoia. "I began to see the pattern emerging...
...chance conversation between Physicist Shmuel Shtrik-man and an old friend, Meyer Kaplan, head of the criminal identification division of the Israeli Ministry of Police. While describing his work at the Weizmann Institute, Shtrikman complained that each of the diamonds he was using in his experiments produced a unique pattern when a beam of light was reflected from it onto a screen. Aware that Israel is the world's largest exporter of cut diamonds, Kaplan suggested that the patterns might be used to identify individual gems...
...sheet of Polaroid film and onto a diamond. As the laser's uniform light waves hit the "table" (or top facet) of the gem, some of them are reflected. Others enter the diamond, circle around inside it and are refracted at varying angles. The result is a unique pattern of spots on the film that looks like a bright, star-cluttered sky; in more advanced versions of the system, the spots turn into a pattern of concentric circles because the diamond is rotated during exposure. Says Shtrikman: "Diamonds are like people. No two are alike. Every diamond, even...
...York's Metropolitan Museum and soon to be seen by the public-was the last of its kind. It was started 70 years ago by the investment banker Philip Lehman, head of Lehman Brothers; his son developed it into a great private collection along the legendary pattern of the Morgan or the Frick. It ranges from Renaissance pottery and medieval acquamanilia (water vessels) to Rembrandts, El Grecos and an astounding collection of more than 1,000 14th-19th century drawings. Parts of this hoard were occasionally lent to institutions like the Orangerie in Paris, but nobody had regular access...
...piano like an orchestra to simultaneously build different themes which appear and disappear only to reassert themselves at a later juncture. The music's complexity is stunning; like an intricate web seen from afar, his music seems initially amorphous, but upon closer examination each musical strand and the pattern into which it is woven appears. In many ways Taylor's style is the antithesis of Ayler's in that Taylor is using the new musical freedom to construct a more sophisticated form, rather than a simpler...