Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrust for his career came from his own youthful enthusiasm for art and science museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section of a city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched past a maze of utility lines, climbed out through a manhole and examined the topside, with its parking meters, trolley tracks and working Volkswagen. Planned as a six-month exhibit, "What's Inside" was so popular that...
Luce dashed off an enraged memo complaining that TIM was treating the election like a "rather minor circus episode." But Matthews ignored him. Finally, Managing Editor Manfred Gottfried told Luce either to edit the section himself or to stay away. "Luce announced that he would exile himself," writes Elson, "but he continued to fulminate from a distance." Matthews offered to resign as NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor, but Luce asked him to stay on. Later, he became managing editor...
...Cross Section. Clementi and other IBM scientists stuffed the memory of an advanced computer with equations that described a number of different atoms. Having set up what, in effect, was an electronic chemistry lab, Clementi ordered the computer to produce the mathematical specifications for one molecule of ammonia and one of hydrochloric acid. The obedient computer was then told to move the two molecules together gradually until they combined to form ammonium chloride (commonly called sal ammoniac), a chemical found in such varied products as cough medicines and battery electrolytes...
...mathematical molecules began to interact, the computer sketched them in bright, sharp lines on a television screen. For the first time, scientists were able to examine a cross-section view of the orbits of electrons during a chemical reaction. By ordering the computer to slice through the ammonium chloride molecule at different angles, Clementi developed other cross sections; he was also able to determine exactly how the atoms in the molecule were joined...
...Asking to Be God. In his closing section on "the immediate theater," Brook deals mostly with his own work. Immediate theater is uniquely a director's medium. "It is a strange role, that of the director," writes Brook. "He does not ask to be God, and yet his role implies it. He wants to be fallible, and yet an instinctive conspiracy of the actors is to make him the arbiter, because an arbiter is so desperately wanted all the time. In a sense the director is always an impostor, a guide at night who does not know the territory...