Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glashow fears that the startling successes of contemporary physicists may eventually render physics a "complete" science in the same way that he considers chemistry a complete science, lacking any "interesting" questions. He laments the lack of great contradictions such as those evident in early 20th century physics. From such contradictions the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics grew. In the absence of such contradictions, physics proceeds too smoothly, Glashow reasons, and becomes less interesting...
...lesser term than civil war." Warming up to the war metaphor, Powell called skin color "a permanent and involuntary uniform which performs ... the functions of a uniform in warfare, distinguishing one side from the other, friend and foe, making it possible to see at a glance where to render assistance and where to attack...
Grau's excellence of craft disguises the book's principal defect: Evidence of Love is not truly a novel but a linking of short stories. The author's chief concern is to render her characters' responses to intense moments of their lives - one of the working definitions of the short story of the '40s and '50s. Her far-flung locations are not textured settings but flimsy sets where the author vainly at tempts to stage her quiet drama of rootlessness and disaffection...
...cartoon shorts combine imagination and technology with a wicked sense of visual wit to come up with this series of fantasies that should beguile even those who hated Fantasia. Like the best of Disney's minions, these animators take the laws governing commonplace existence, turn them inside out and render the impossible persuasive...
...course, I do not expect the Quad Houses' stock to soar immediately with the change to three-year Houses. But the elimination of this important difference seems necessary (though not sufficient) to giving these houses equal status in the eyes of students. Again, this does not render illegitimate the preferences of some students for the four-year House concept; it merely recognizes the fact that there are not enough such students to make viable the current diversity of options. Sophomores preferring the current Quad model are out-numbered by those whose preferences are violated through assignment to the Quad...