Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Brazil plunges into the world's biggest binge, a wild four-day pageant driven by the intoxicating beat of the samba. There are no politics to carnaval, and no Brazilian government-however tough-minded-would dare deny its people their great annual excursion into tun and fantasy (see box following page). Yet there is a slightly unreal air to Brazil this week, as carnaval dances toward its pre-Lent climax. Since the military crackdown last December, Brazilians have had to put up with a tough, moralistic, even prudish regime. While revelers are putting the final touches on their...
...phenomenon of carnaval is that a person begins to think, "It's not so much that I am having fun, but I see so many people having fun that I too begin enjoying myself. And because they see me having fun, they, in turn, have more fun." That is why carnaval is so embedded in the culture. One can see poor, ragged people looking as if they were having fun. You would have to ask each individual if he is enjoying himself; but at least they look as if they were. This is agreeable to the human being...
Feinberg was unable to get around this mathematical roadblock until he was struck by an ingenious idea. If mass becomes imaginary at high velocities, why not see what happens when an imaginary number is substituted for mass at rest? When he made the substitution, he was able to derive a real number for the energy of a particle traveling above the speed of light. Translating this concept into physical terms, Feinberg conjured up a strange particle that seemed to exist only on the other side of the speed-of-light barrier; it could move at velocities greater than...
...back if sleep ends prematurely. But for industrial societies, the schedules are merciless. Rising at the crack, grumped German Journalist Johannes Gross recently, condemns modern man to the life of peasants. Mutters Pablo Picasso, "I understand why they execute condemned men at dawn. I just have to see the dawn in order to have my head roll all by itself." Hungarian Author Ferenc Molnar was so unaccustomed to daylight that once, when he was dragooned into jury duty in the early morning, he looked incredulously at the thronged streets of Budapest and asked, "Are they all jurors...
Plays converted into musicals have a high disaster ratio. In some instances, the plays themselves could not have been successfully revived. The Madwoman of Chaillot, from which Dear World has been rather conscientiously adapted, is 25 years old, and it doesn't take a play doctor to see that rigor mortis...