Word: spatial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...median width should also be avoided; the median strip between the ribbons of roadway should be expanded and contracted to overcome the monotony of high-speed travel. "The designer of a divided freeway possesses, in the very interplay of the two undulating ribbons of pavement, a basic tool of spatial expression," and he should treat it as "a sculptural form in its own right...
...language skills are unimpaired. He can still write; he can reset his wrist watch. After a mild right-side stroke, the patient may have no paralysis, but only what neurologists call "silent impairment"-a vague depression, believed to result from a blunting of sensory awareness, and in judgment of spatial relations. He does not become overanxious. But he is likely to complain endlessly about his food or the hospital routine. And the dulling of his sensitivity may make him careless of toilet habits. Worst of all, this patient, with supposedly less crippling damage, lacks the strong motive to retrain himself...
...study of economic development, history, politics, anthropology, and geological and biological scientists. Mr. Skelton put the case strongly in the Adams House Oak Leaf: "Geography conditions the lives of men. It is a point of view from which the data of many sciences can and must be surveyed in spatial relationship or distribution. Maps are accordingly essential tools of the social scientist...
...Japanese Composer Mayuzumi mixes orchestra and male chorus with purely electronic beeps, whistles and growls as a means of "creating my own musical Nirvana." Whatever he created (he also refers to the piece as "a sort of Buddhistic cantata"), the music is fascinating-full of swelling sonorities and eerie spatial sounds...
...tetrahedron frequently appears in nature: the spatial orientation of a carbon atom's valence electrons, for example, is tetrahedral. Fuller also noted that all three-dimensional geometric figures reduce to combinations of tetrahedra. The tetrahedron, in fact, "is the minimum system for subdividing the universe...