Word: shifted
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Their torment is increased by the suggestion of incest, and by the fact that their father killed their mother and committed suicide. Outwardly, this seems like native dramatic country for Tennessee Williams. But the new note is a Pirandellian ambiguity as the characters continually shift between their two poles of reality. Are these actors 'playing a mad brother and sister, or are they a mad brother and sister playing actors? In any event, the psychic locale of the play is a kind of streetcar named despair; the loaded revolver that glints with menace in the closing scene...
...Blue. Not surprisingly, as Moskowitz's imaginary ship moved far beyond the solar system, the appearance of the sky began to change. As the ship approached them, the nearer stars began to shift their positions in familiar constellations, eventually disappearing from forward view as the spacecraft passed them. More distant stars remained in relatively fixed positions. In the view from the rear, the sun faded from sight as the craft flew beyond a distance of 30 light-years from the solar system, while 45 Eridani loomed ever larger ahead...
...celestial navigator on the flight had not already become lost in space, there was a more puzzling effect to confound him: relativistic aberration, the apparent shift of visible stars toward the direction of the spacecraft's motion. Thus, the computer showed, as the craft approached 45 Eridani at ever increasing velocities, other stars in the sky began to converge toward the target star. At 90% of the speed of light, only a few stars remained visible through the rear window. In a nightmarish finale to Moskowitz's flight, the remainder of the visible universe-stars, galaxies, nebulas-seemed...
Lighting Up. The most pressing problem involves teachers. Many are reluctant to make the necessary psychological shift from the traditional method of handing out their own or textbook conclusions to students to learn by role. Few colleges prepare teachers for the discovery technique, and systematic retraining of present teachers is rare. Officials at the American Association for the Advancement of Science estimate that about half of the teachers handling the new courses are not using the course materials properly. Since the method also demands a good deal more preparation for each class, success depends upon teacher enthusiasm. "Only...
...Administration claimed the November 2 shift might make a debate before the Security Council meaningful at last. But this maneuver has precisely the opposite effect. Washington knows that a debate in the Security Council would offer this country a better opportunity to answer the Vietcong than in General Assembly discussions. But this U.S. stand merely illuminates the real reason President Johnson has chosen to ignore and stifle the Vietcong initiative to bring the war before the Assembly...