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Shakespeare, in his prescient wisdom, foresaw the discovery of the late twentieth century Harvard paradigm. What is Macbeth if not the tragic embodiment of acute paradigm dysfunction? He fell victim to a bunch of lunatics who shoved their own illusory paradigms up his paradigm vacuum. He had to be told what paradigms to adopt. His fatal paradigm encompassed the plausibility of entire forests moving by themselves. Since Macbeth was the classic tragic hero, he could be cleansed of his false paradigms only in death. We muse that, at the final moment of truth, he ascends to paradigm purification...
...Semitic museum] is a nineteenth century building and we are trying to operate it as a twentieth century museum," said Green...
Emerging from two very separate traditions, Cecil Taylor's music is difficult to classify, beyond calling it sui generis. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Taylor draws deeply upon the twentieth-century European art music school of composers such as Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky. However, his professional experience from an early age came in the jazz world, the network of bars and nightclubs where the African-American musical idiom was being developed...
Slasher. The word evokes images of the nineteenth-century mass murderer Jack the Ripper, sporting a shiny silver knife and a bloodthirsty eye. Stories of the legendary killer still linger into the late decades of the twentieth century, pervading dime store novels and Grade-B horror movies...
...maybe not. The Russians insist that the real figure is only a one- twentieth as large, and no one has been able to prove them wrong. Bad weather closed area airports for most of last week, while a persistent cloud cover prevented orbiting spy satellites from photographing the spill. But even if the Russian estimates are accurate, says William White, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, "that...