Word: roote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrif; likewise lighting and anything else technical. But how much can you root for this show? It's just not enough fun or makeshift enough to put you on the side of the creators. On a professional scale--you can forget about bombing in New Haven--this show would be lucky to limp out of Bridgeport without a lynching. It's a conceit, and that's all right, but whose conceit is it? The question of what constituency the Pudding and its scripts represent seems to have come late in Cardinal Knowledge when an innocent cast member dared to drop...
Atomos, the Greek root of 'atom,' means indivisible, and it was once thought that atoms were the ultimate, indivisible constituents of matter, that is, they were regarded as elementary particles. One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure. In 1911 Ernest Rutherford showed that the atom consists of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons. It was subsequently revealed that the nucleus itself can be broken down into discrete particles, the protons and neutrons...
...that in its earliest form, it actually marked a humanitarian improvement in the laws of war, since it involved the capture of prisoners instead of their slaughter. Oddly, it was not a primitive practice, in one sense, because it required a stable and settled society in order to take root...
Tuesday, Feb. 15--As part of MIT's Black History month, Robert Hayden, an MIT Community Fellow will root out some "Black Americans In Science, Invention, and Medicine" and speak about their lives at 12 noon in MIT's room 10-105. Free...
...glass replicas, made by the British Museum-which, thanks to Lord Elgin, already has the better part of the Parthenon's original friezes. As for the stones, the rusty iron clamps and rods will have to be extracted and replaced in what one UNESCO expert calls "a gigantic root-canal job." Finally there is the problem of mass tourism-3 million visitors a year shepherded round the Acropolis by yammering guides, 6 million feet setting up their cumulative (and, says UNESCO, destructive) vibrations in the stone. The only solution to that seems to be to reorganize the traffic flow...