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After reviewing the study, Prometheus Research—a New Haven firm which is headed by a Yale professor—has also backed King’s survey methods, statistical analysis and conclusions, calling the criticisms by the NAICU and AACRAO “not warranted” in a press release...
What Franklin modestly described as his "electrical amusements" made him the world's most famous scientist. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant called him the "new Prometheus." Most important, Franklin's fame helped open French hearts--and purse strings--when years later he came calling at Louis XVI's court on behalf of his embattled young nation. As the French financier Turgot would say of the kite flyer from Philadelphia, "He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants...
...drill, dubbed Operation Prometheus, began at Logan Airport on Thursday with the simulated explosion of a dirty bomb on an inbound United Airlines flight from France, and continued on Friday when 10 hospitals in the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals received victims coming in for treatment...
...Barnett Newman painted Ulysses in 1952, after the failure of his first two solo shows. But instead of making his art more accessible - his paintings had been criticized as "nearly blank" - he traveled farther into abstraction. Ulysses and its companions, the inkier Day Before One (1951) and the sable Prometheus Bound (1952), strike the viewer with the primeval and inexplicable force of Stonehenge monoliths. These works need to be seen to be believed. "There is no substitute for the personal experience of these paintings," says Ann Temkin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Barnett Newman," curated by Temkin, offers...
...Cantata” by Tommy Neblett, co-artistic director/choreographer of Prometheus Dance Company, continued the sculpting of classical music with modern movements. The Romanesque costumes accentuated the sway of the performers, but also sharply denoted the disjunction between the body and the music. The dance followed the pace of the music, but inexactly. Slight motions did not coincide with the tempo of the music and the flow of the costumes and arms, although unavoidable slips detracted from the overall piece...