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Enough already have to make them a fixture of current U.S. college life-like the "A" student and the Goldwater button. What most of the singers have in common is their age (early 20s) and their scorn of the "commercial." What separates them is the quality of their talent...
...therefore, protons. Surrounding the bottle is an electrical coil connected to a control box. The magnetometer is usually operated by two people, one of whom moves the bottle from point to point, while the other sits at the control box. To make an observation, the controller presses a button, shooting an electric current from a storage battery through the coil, deflecting the protons in the bottle. When the current stops, the protons oscillate, creating a feeble alternating current in the coil. This current flows back to the control box, where its frequency is measured, giving the strength of the magnetism...
...Bomber Vanessa Redgrave, 25, mounted a Hyde Park soapbox and declared: "I would like to be home with my husband, but if the bomb is dropped and I have played no part in protesting against it, I would be as guilty as the man who pressed the button." At the edge of the heckling crowd stood Actor Sir Michael Redgrave, 54, Vanessa's father. "I believe in what she says in principle," he said, "but I am against this civil disobedience. It could be dangerous if applied wrongly...
...fasten bolts and locks onto them. In New Mexico I painted tin cans in a more or less naturalistic way-that was a gesture against the romantic idea of natural beauty. And on the docks in Gloucester, I remember doing a collage with pieces of cotton and a button sewed on the canvas and a piece of tin." Finally, in 1927, he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year...
...that afternoon, Karandas Chandrakrishma, Instructor in Indian Studies, emerged from his office in Weld Hall and paused teetering on the steps of that noble pile to button his raincoat. It was an action which caused in him a troble grief. First, because it gave him time to reflect, as he always did, that the University had given Ali Ahmed, graduate student in Indian Studies, an office in Boyiston Hall, and him, Chadrakrisha himself, only a garret in Weld. Second, because it reminded him that he was wearing a cheap American raincoat. Finally, because it urged upon his flickering consciousness...