Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high, and amongst the forms used to make this "busy" composition (compressed into a base about a foot or so square) are cut-outs remarkably like the cross-sections you see of the human tongue in a biology textbook. It would be easy to see this sculpture as a sort of satire of speech: the forms overlap like conversations do at a cocktail party. And as you walk around the piece it is as hard to decide which angle it looks best from as it is to decide where to stand in a crowd--you move and one form overshadows...
This is a broad definition--one that has raised the ire of union officials, who fear the University may be planning to hire a commercial management firm of the sort that frequently takes a pro-management bias in dealing with labor disputes. Yet despite the union's concern, Powers will not further characterize the type of organization the University will engage--despite the fact that the union must also approve its choice before negotiations can resume...
Still later Friday, Washington received reports from Kampala that Amin was planning to turn this week's command performance into a sort of July 4 barbecue. By this week, Big Daddy might even be proclaiming, as he has done in the past, "I love the Americans. They are my best friends." He might be admonishing Jimmy Carter to "pull up his socks"-a bit of advice he once gave the Queen of England...
...conspicuously last week as 4,200 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gathered in Denver for their annual brainstorming. Arthur Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory Inc. in Everett, Mass., came plugging, once again, for the creation of a "science court" that might help sort out "facts from values" in controversies that have been multiplying in the atmosphere of question and dispute. One of the speakers in Denver, Science Historian June Goodfield, a visiting professor at New York's Rockefeller University, welcomed public skepticism as a healthy development that is basically "a call...
Henry Brock is an English bachelor and a railway man with a precise idea of heaven: "The right sort of train to London ... a morning train, with a good breakfast car, lots of coffee and toast and bacon and eggs and marmalade, the newspaper, and two or three hours of pleasantly changing views through the window." Alas, such bliss is denied him. On holiday in Italy, Brock and his girl friend are drowned when their cruise ship sinks. Because of his record of unrepented fornications, he is sentenced to the Second Circle of Hell -Dante's Circle...