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...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...
Even at this late date there remains some confusion between the terms "hi-fi" and "stereo." Although both words refer to acoustic conditions the first deals with quality of sound while the second is concerned with spatial characteristics...
...first sculptures were busts and birds of carved metal, but he soon found figurative art too restricting. "If you have a figure with two hands," says he, "and you find that the spatial relationships cry out for a third, you will distort too much. With free form there is no such confinement." Having worked with metal from his youth, De Rivera not only felt at home with the material, but also found that it gave him more freedom than any other. "I don't use wood because it has a grain, and the grain can be too strong. Stainless...