Word: polarizer
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...commerce, as the uncertain flight of the Concorde shows. So far, they are being asked to pull together only enough to deal with a limited range of needs: to organize monetary stability, to control multinational corporations, to counter Japanese competition, to have a louder voice in the new multi-polar world. What might Europe expect beyond these narrow economic assignments? The seers disagree...
...only way to restore the Caspian Sea and to slake the "colossal thirst" of users along the way, is to turn rivers now flowing north to the Arctic Ocean southward. Some international scientists fear that without the usual supply of easily frozen fresh water reaching the northern seas, the polar icecap will recede-and the consequent melting will flood the world's seacoasts...
...cities of Oslo and Tromsø are only 650 miles and 100 minutes apart. The psychological distance, however, is much greater, for Tromsø lies 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and its 40,000 inhabitants live two months of each year without seeing the sun. In this polar blackness or mørketiden* (murky time), the mentally unstable may slip over the edge into a temporary state of profound mental disturbance. Even those who are emotionally healthy the rest of the year may become unaccountably tense, restless, fearful and preoccupied with thoughts of death and suicide...
...care less' attitude." In Tromsø, reports Psychiatrist Harald Reppesgaard of Asgard Mental Hospital, "the whole city slows down. People's concentration and work capacity are reduced, and they are always tired." Adds R. Kaare Rodahl, an Oslo physiologist who has done research in the Arctic: "The polar night has a tendency to bring out the least desirable elements in human behavior-envy, jealousy, suspicion, egotism, irritability...
...search. His efforts were directed toward finding the emotional significance of the object. For his early work in the 1920's he shot trees, gnarled driftwood, machines--close--ups of plants and rocks. His work with close-ups led Strand to explore the world of human portraits. At one polar, he experimented with the idea of photographing people when they were answers that they were in view of the camera. This he did by attaching a false loss to the side of his 3 1/4 in. reflex camera...